Hilton Als Quotes

Hilton Als
American Writer
Born: 1960
Black Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
People have a copyright on their own life. Hilton Als
Life People Own Copyright
It's dollars before art in Hollywood. Hilton Als
Art Before Dollars Hollywood
Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about. Hilton Als
People Genius Enough Enough People Kind About Know Julius American
I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway. Hilton Als
Best Me Looking Think Tell Telling Various Doing Opposed Exist Very Just Difference Happen Story Anyway Avenues Then Really Fully Thing
I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself. Hilton Als
Best Good Writing Strong Care Think Way Best Way About Having Point Point Of View Take Writers Take Care Sticking Itself Going View Theories Served Loads Position
I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything. Hilton Als
God Me Somebody Kidding Never Feel Like Always Surprise Done Anything Swear Ask
I love writing. Writing has been very good to me. Hilton Als
Love Good Me Writing Has-Been Been Very
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can. Hilton Als
Love Best Everyone Performers Than Trying Different Really Painters
Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't. Hilton Als
Women Men Way Ability Still
I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story. Hilton Als
You Writing Past Believe Borrow Write Emotionally Until Make Without Began Did Essays Fiction Upsetting Form Story Your Reason Apparently
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. Hilton Als
Art History Way Find Some Make Ideological Western Very Artists The History Of Hard Who
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too. Hilton Als
Memory Writing Think Too Instagram Remembrance Act Show
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als
Me Painting Think Collaborative Something More Colors Exchange Generally Abstraction Feel Feels Like Sure Always Subject Than Sitter Often Just Whereas Interested Aspect Connected Portraits
In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows. Hilton Als
Heart Feeling Thoroughly Spirit General Read Territory Author Want Anything Really Explored
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. Hilton Als
Envy Poets True Nobody Because False Them Ask Ever
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for. Hilton Als
Me You Writing Feel Demands Particular Know Piece Any Going Just Ask Certain Publication Satisfy
If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy. Hilton Als
Crazy You Own Think Imagination Add My Own Feel Journalistic Towards Freer Like Because Context Subject Revisit Essence May Just Story Then Really Assignment
One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.' Hilton Als
You Writing Become Books Kind One Of The Things Magazine About Liked Pieces Anonymity Because Than Different Figure Things
When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself. Hilton Als
Work Truth You Yourself Mind Nothing Tell See Magazine Takes Dictates Where Anyone Format Working Your Fun
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. Hilton Als
You Respect Writing Reading Pay Say Take Want Which Should Deserves
I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to bring people of color into the theater. Hilton Als
Natural People Ways Complex Those Williams More Color Tennessee Tennessee Williams Lot Theater Against Productions Bring Plays
There is not enough time for anything, ever. Hilton Als
Time Enough Enough Time Anything Ever
I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. Hilton Als
Time Lonely Year Summer Perfect Suppose Come Come And Go Indulge Comfort Because Makes Go Friends Goes Which Many Novels Set
I love Andre Leon Talley as a person. Hilton Als
Love Andre Person
I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old. Hilton Als
Day You Writing Old Reading Other Else Feel Perhaps Know Course Much Teaches
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. Hilton Als
Life Change Women Black Stage White Musicals Composers Rely Although How Still Lot Familiar American Did Often Representing Movement Sixties Fifties
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