Colson Whitehead

"I ask myself: Is the outlook of this book comic? Is it tragic? Is the story best served by a first person narrator who's telling his or her story? Is it best served by an omniscient narrator who can s…"

"I never know when I start out. You know, I sort of know what the ending is. I know where the characters always end up, and I usually have an image of the last page before I start. I'm a big outliner. …"

"Elwood and Turner represent two different parts of my personality…There is the optimistic or hopeful part of me that believes we can make the world a better place if we keep working at it. Then there’…"

"My compulsion to write the story was from seeing so many people go unpunished, and so many innocents' stories being untold…"