Toni Morrison Quotes About Writing

• Si hay un libro que realmente quieres leer, pero aún no se ha escrito, entonces debes escribirlo.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspiración, Felicidad, Actitud

• La escritura es - estoy libre de dolor. Es el lugar donde vivo; es donde tengo el control; es donde nadie me dice lo que tengo que hacer; es donde mi imaginación es fecunda y estoy realmente en mi mejor momento. Nada importa más en el mundo ni en mi cuerpo ni en ninguna parte cuando estoy escribiendo.

  Toni Morrison

  Dolor, Escritura, Imaginación

  "'Me arrepiento de todo': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" con Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 20 de abril de 2015.

• I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Firsts, Novel

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• No hay tiempo para la desesperación, ni lugar para la autocompasión, ni necesidad de silencio, ni espacio para el miedo. Hablamos, escribimos, hacemos lenguaje. Así es como se curan las civilizaciones.

  Toni Morrison

  Escritura, Yo, Civilización

  "En tiempos de terror, los artistas nunca deben optar por callar" por Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. 23 de marzo de 2013.

• Les digo a mis alumnos que existe el "bloqueo del escritor" y que deben respetarlo. No hay que escribir a través de él. Se bloquea porque debe bloquearse, porque ahora no lo tienes.

  Toni Morrison

  Bloqueo, Escritura, Estudiantes

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). "Conversaciones con Toni Morrison", p.159, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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 belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

  Toni Morrison

  Believe, Writing, Dark

  Conferencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura, pronunciada el 7 de diciembre de 1993

• I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Ideas, Answers

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

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Done, World

• I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Writing, Way

• 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

  Sweet, Writing, Thinking

• When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter-another one will, and it'll probably be better. And I don't mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it-and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better.

  Toni Morrison

  Pareja, Escribir, Pensar

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspiration, Writing, Compelled

• There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

  Toni Morrison

  Hard Work, Writing, Differences

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Light, Order

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Writing, Doors

• One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Giving, Said

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

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Thinking, Vision

• I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, House, Type

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

  Toni Morrison

  Witty, Children, Writing

• I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

  Toni Morrison

  Grandma, Writing, Tired

• El Premio Nobel es lo mejor que le puede pasar a un escritor en términos de cómo afecta a tus contratos, a los editores y a la seriedad con la que se toma tu trabajo. Por otro lado, interfiere en tu vida privada, o puede hacerlo si se lo permites, y tiene un efecto nulo en la escritura. No te ayuda a escribir mejor y, si lo permites, te intimidará de cara a futuros proyectos.

  Toni Morrison

  Zero, Taken, Writing

• People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

  Toni Morrison

  Escribir, Gente, Querer

• When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, White, Able

• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

  Toni Morrison

  Wall, Taken, Writing

• Creo que ser editora me ayudó mucho a tomar notas de los demás sobre lo que escribía. Recibía notas como "Está demasiado mojado" o "Los dos primeros capítulos son buenos, pero el resto de las páginas estaban tan mojadas que eran completamente ilegibles" o "¿Has mojado esto en Sprite? Esto huele a Sprite. ¿Por qué mojarías tu novela en Sprite?" Y en lugar de contestar, escuchaba. Es una habilidad increíblemente importante para un escritor joven.

  Toni Morrison

  Pareja, Escribir, Pensar

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