Author: Teju Cole

Quotes

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

- Teju Cole

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

- Teju Cole

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

- Teju Cole

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

- Teju Cole

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