Colson Whitehead
Born: 11-06-1969
Colson Whitehead is an acclaimed American author known for his inventive storytelling and exploration of race and history. He gained widespread recognition with "The Underground Railroad," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Whitehead's diverse body of work spans genres, including speculative fiction, crime, and literary fiction. His insightful narratives and distinctive style have made him one of contemporary literature's most influential voices.
Book summaries for books written by Colson Whitehead
Quotes
It had been a long time since anyone had asked him what he wanted. The question hit him hard, stopped him in his tracks.
"You've got to find something to hold on to, something to do, I think," Gary said. "Keep moving, keep living."
Survival, ah yes. It was no longer fashionable to use that term, as if physical existence were humanity's highest calling and nonexistence some kind of spiritual failure.
He looked at it for a moment, shifted his focus. What was he supposed to do with it? Find a way to press on? Pretend that the flash drive represented hope?
"This was his mission, he’d remembered. No purpose, only mission. There’s nothing else."
"Sometimes nature has to chop off the limbs to stay alive."
That's the thing with the dead. They don't give back. Not much of anything.
"The trick is to never stress, because the time spent worrying is time lost."
"Slowly, slowly, the world we knew had become the world we’d feared."
Nothing could be worse than seeming weak — seeming weak compelled people to take advantage of you, especially when what wanted lay entirely out of reach.
"What's the point of doing something if you're not pretending?"
Faces were strictly taboo for nostalgia junkies.