Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
–Toni Morrison
“Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling, but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
— Toni Morrison (1931-2019), American novelist, essayist, and editor, winner of the 1993 Nobel prize in literature
“I like the feeling of a told story, where you hear a voice but you can’t identify it, and you think it’s your own voice.”
– Toni Morrison, in Inventing the Truth (quoted in The Writer, Oct 2008)