“When you first start writing, you’re scared to death that if you don’t get that sentence right that minute it’s never going to show up again. And it isn’t. But it doesn’t matter – another one will, and it’ll probably be better. And I don’t mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it —- and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better. I don’t have the hysteria that used to accompany some of those dazzling passages that I thought the world was just dying for me to remember. I’m a little more sanguine about it now. Because the best part of it all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over.

Toni Morrison
1931 - 2019

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