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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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