• There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.

  Toni Morrison
  American novelist, essayist, editor 1931-2019
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. compromises
2. enormous
3. writing
4. living
5. honest

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There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays. by : Toni Morrison

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