I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
Toni MorrisonI think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.
Toni MorrisonThe presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
Toni MorrisonBeing good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.
Toni Morrison