{"id":17181,"date":"2012-11-17T06:31:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=17181"},"modified":"2012-11-13T22:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T09:07:44","slug":"a-sunday-writing-quote-from-toni-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/a-sunday-writing-quote-from-toni-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday Writing Quote from Toni Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange, and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Toni Morrison<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>In a way this quote is the antithesis of &#8220;write what you know&#8221;, but no less than what I would expect of a writer of Morrison&#8217;s power. For me , &#8220;write what you know&#8221; is a good starting point, but this quote of Toni Morrison&#8217;s&#8212;again for me, but I feel it exemplifies a goal which as writers we strive to attain evey time we pick up a pen, or sit down at the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about Toni Morrison, her Nobel Laureate&#8217;s (1993) biography is a good starting point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1993\/morrison-bio.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. &#8220;The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange, and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.&#8221; ~ Toni Morrison . &#8212; In a way this quote is the antithesis of &#8220;write what you know&#8221;, but no less than what I would expect of a writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17186,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions\/17186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}