Quotes On Writing - A Collection of Famous Writers

Toni Morrison

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet; then you MUST write it."

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"Freeing yourself was one thing. Claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

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"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 the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us beliefs wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fears caul."

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"Don't talk about it; Write."

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"But the writing was the real freedom, because nobody told me what to do there. That was my world and my imagination. And all my life it's been that way, even now."

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"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."

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"Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."