"There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. 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"

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Toni Morrison

#Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”
“Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.”
“Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste”
“The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.”
“I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.”
“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!”
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”
“As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.”

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