Excerpts: Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

As writers, what we do is remember. And to remember this world is to create it.

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

What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?