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Writing 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…
- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the…
- 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 always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
- 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…
- The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or…
- 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…
- The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what…
- If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
- Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
- I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
- 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…
- Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
- 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…
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in…
- 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…
- There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking…
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