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Writer Quotes by Toni Morrison
- 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 am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and…
- Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal…
- 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…
- As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
- I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater…
- My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
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