John Wideman Quotes
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Readers are my vampires.
— Italo Calvino
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
— John Edgar Wideman
A free state is a corporate state.
— Marie Lu
Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.
— John Edgar Wideman
Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.
— John Edgar Wideman
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.
— John Edgar Wideman
I wish I had time to listen to music more.
— John Edgar Wideman
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
— Anurag Kashyap
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
— John Edgar Wideman
I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
— John Edgar Wideman
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
— V.S. Naipaul
If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?
— John Edgar Wideman
All Stories are True.
— John Edgar Wideman
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
— John Edgar Wideman
Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.
— John Edgar Wideman
Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.
— John Edgar Wideman
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
— William Godwin
Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.
— John Edgar Wideman