“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” Toni Morrison

Today, February 18, is Toni Morrison’s birthday. Some words of wisdom from the beloved author of Beloved and T

“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.”

“I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.”

“Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.”

“I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how I should have done it.”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”

“I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can’t do anything anyway.”

‘We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

“There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since it is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

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

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”

I get angry about things, then go on and work.”

“Love is or ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”

And now, inspired and emboldened, let’s all write on!

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