"Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable..." - Quote by John Updike
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.
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More on Writing
“I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.”
“I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.”
“I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.”
More on Authors
“Authors should be honored only for their works.”
“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”
“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”