Toni at Random Quotes

“The things writers were most resistant to telling were often the very things they should write about, she (Toni Morrison) told Brown. Similarly, she argued, so much of the best writing happened when writers moved toward and not away from the source of historical hurt that was also personal, even when it was painful for the writer to do so.”
― Dana A. Williams, Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship