Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your … - Colson Whitehead

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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

Colson Whitehead

Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.

Calling, Falling In Love, Inspiration, Leave, Subject

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In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

Fiction, Payback, Words, Wronged

What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

Angel, Cities, Perfect, See, Stunted

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

Alone, Cities, Knows, Person, Persons

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

America, Book, Concerns, Technology, Thinking

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

Atrocities, Book, Scratch, Thinking, Way, Writing