#you

Make a difference about something other than yourselves. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#difference #make #make a difference #other #something

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#comfort #help #i #i think #obviously

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anything #anyway #character #i #just

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? ↗

— Toni Morrison

#choice #describe #economy #how #many

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#child #children #community #i #need

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. ↗

— Van Morrison

#change #musician #same #singer #stay

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#cards #leave #lose #must #order

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. ↗

— Van Morrison

#early #i #learnt #never #recordings

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. ↗

— Van Morrison

#different #different places #line #makes #places

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. ↗

— Van Morrison

#you #you can do it