I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
Toni MorrisonEverybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni MorrisonI'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
Toni Morrison