“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.” PeopleWritingTryingHateWhiteRacismLettersDare Author:Cristina Saralegui
“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.” WritingBlackWhiteInfiniteShadeBlack And WhiteGreyShades Of Grey Author:Rebecca Solnit
“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again” IfsWritingTodayHouseWhiteLike YouWhite HouseYou Again Author:Ron Suskind
“Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.” WritingSoulMightGuySongWhiteSingingBottomGutsBobDylanWriting SongsLennonSpringsteen Author:Robin Thicke
“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesKidsWhiteRoomsDegreesWindowMachinesSilentCornersNoiseBagsTrashWhite Noise Author:Jennifer Weiner
“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.” FeelsWritingYearsLongWhiteWalksRoomsPartyTeamBuildingExerciseRegardWineDrinkingFollowingCornersCorporationsBottlesDesksEmbarrassmentTeam BuildingShoutingLong WalksChristmas PartyWhite Wine Author:Will Self
“The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.” NeedsWritingStatesBlackWhiteUnitedUnited StatesWrittenIndianAsianLatinoCaribbean Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.” WritingMayTwoLife IsNightWhitePaperSheets Author:James Russell Lowell
“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.” IfsThinkingWritingHeartEnoughEarthWhitePoorSeaPaperInk Author:John Lyly
“The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.” KnowsGivingWritingFunnyHouseWhiteComedyJokesSarcasticWhite HouseBriefing Author:David Letterman
“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.” ThinkingWritingYearsMy OwnWhiteDealsGuiltTrainSouthDriversSouth AfricaBlindnessWriting LifeApartheid Author:Athol Fugard