Colson Whitehead Quotes

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I enjoy writing.

All experience helps when you write.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

I took a lot of writing courses.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I've been writing for a long time.

I never took a writing class.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

I think all writing is done through memory.

I've always loved writing.