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Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.
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A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
—Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, 2019
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As writers, what we do is remember. And to remember this world is to create it.
—Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, 2019
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History has always proved that books are the first plain on which certain battles are fought.
—Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, documentary, 2019
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I know it seems like a lot. But I really only do one thing. I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job.
—Toni Morrison, New Yorker Magazine, 2003
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