“My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm...” — Colson Whitehead Quote

“My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.”

“'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.”

“For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.”

“Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.”

“I'm not a yes person, whether it's about a tie choice or a joke.”

“I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.”