“When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.”

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison”

“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison”

“Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.”

“I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.”

“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”