"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."

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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

— Colson Whitehead