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

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

“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.”

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing forlife. 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”

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

“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.”

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”