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Write Quotes by Toni Morrison
- I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
- I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
- I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your…
- I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
- I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because…
- There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.…
- The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the…
- If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go…
- When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and…
- There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write…
- People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So…
- If there's a book that you want to read,but hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.
- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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- Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon