Toni Morrison Describes How She Began to Be a Writer
Toni Morrison Describes How She Began to Be a Writer - MacDowell
I will tell you how I began to be a writer. I was a reader. I learned to read when I was very young. Three years old. It was very special.
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
My beginnings are not beginnings; I just start. Sometimes I have to write the beginning after the book is done. Well, that seems like a natural ...
Writing before dawn began as a necessity—I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, Mama— ...
Biography: Toni Morrison - National Women's History Museum
Within two years, she transferred to the New York City branch of the company and began to edit fiction and books by African-American authors. Although she ...
A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison
She described her struggle with making her stories “just right.” Likely trying to be succinct and yet communicate directly with the greatest of ...
She was interested in the questions they sought, in the characters' interest in living life or leaving it. Their past became her present and she ...
Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134 - The Paris Review
Writing before dawn began as a necessity—I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, Mama—and that was ...
Toni Morrison: How She Made Her Magic | by Andrew Szanton
Always, she had the highest standards for storytelling. She wanted her books to create a coherent world, to give the reader or listener, safety, ...
Morrison was particularly passionate about Black writers writing for Black readers. She described the situation when she began as an editor ...
Toni Morrison Talks About Her Motivation For Writing - YouTube
I was privileged to meet her once. She signed my copy of The Bluest Eye. I asked her if she could sum up her work. She said:"I love you".
Toni Morrison on 'Beloved' - Shondaland.com
I began thinking about Beloved in 1983. As it had been since the beginning of my writing years, I was drawn to it by my complicated ...
Toni Morrison - Daily Routines
I was involved in writing Beloved at that time--this was in 1983--and eventually I realized that I was clearer-headed, more confident and ...
Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'
When she started The Bluest Eye she was the single mother of two boys, living in Syracuse, New York. She rose at 4am every morning to write ...
“You Don't Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice from Toni ...
I wrote the first book because I wanted to read it. I thought that kind of book, with that subject—those most vulnerable, most undescribed, not ...
Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88
At the very beginning, when I wrote the first book, 'The Bluest Eye,' I came at it as not a writer, but a reader. And such a story didn't exist.
Why Storytelling Matters | Toni Morrison's Lesson on Writing
Did you know that Toni Morrison wrote her first novel, getting up every morning at 4 am to write, while raising two children on her own? She ...
Toni Morrison: Biographical Note - Lehigh University Scalar
Morrison's career in publishing is extremely impressive; she worked with a large number of writers, including several emerging Black writers who ...
Toni Morrison on the Necessity of Literature - YES! Magazine
As a scholar and literary editor, Morrison knew what she was taking on when she began writing fiction in the 1960s. Like the writers of the 1619 ...
'Unexplored Corners' | Princeton Alumni Weekly
IN THE 1970S, TONI MORRISON LED A HECTIC life. She was a promising novelist who held a demanding job as an editor at Random House.
Toni Morrison: The Precious Moments a Writer Lives For - Oprah.com
After I finished The Bluest Eye, which took me five years to write, I went into a long period of...not deep depression but a kind of melancholy. Then I had ...