I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all;… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison,… — John Green Copy Share Image
My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Cis women want to know what trans women know. And they don't want the dumbed-down version of it - the same way… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
