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“I became a writer once I realized no one liked my stuff. I just had no choice but to keep going and start a new novel.” In an interview for Louisiana Channel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Colson Whitehead talks about how rejections of his first manuscript pushed him forward to pursue writing and why he enjoys exploring different genres.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Colson Whitehead | Pulitzer Prize | Louisiana Channel | interview | The Intuitionist | Random House | 1999
