Toni Morrison
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The only thing that made it really possible for me was thinking
So I can't be too self-regarding and precious about all that.
If they could do it, I could write about it.
I mean, I could get tough enough.
Finding out answers to these incredible questions that it seemed to me had never been put subtly.
The language had not manifested it.
I wanted the language to be what the question was.
I wanted the language to simply hold it.
I started my career with the bluest eye of putting the entire plot on the first page.
So the reader reads the first page.
He knows exactly what happened.
And if he turns the page, it's because he wants either to find out how it happened or he loves the lightning.
Who is the person who lives inside us that is the one you can trust, who is the best thing you are?