Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You are your best thing.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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