If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
Toni MorrisonIntimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
Toni MorrisonI want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
Toni MorrisonI'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison