Colson Whitehead

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Colson Whitehead

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3 déclarations, les plus récentes d'abord

1. 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?

   On choosing the tone of his works in “INTERVIEWS - Powell's Interview: Colson Whitehead, Author of 'The Nickel Boys'” in Powell’s City of, Ses propres mots

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

   On his moral imperative to write his work The Nickel Boys in “INTERVIEWS - Powell's Interview: Colson Whitehead, Author of 'The Nickel Boys'”, Ses propres mots

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3. 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.

   On how envisioning an ending allows him to conclude each character’s journey in “Extended interview: Colson Whitehead on writing ‘The, Ses propres mots

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