...the important thing is that I don't do anything else. I avoid the social life normally associated with publishing. I don't go to the cocktail parties, I don't give or go to dinner parties. I need that time int he evening because I can do a tremendous amount of work then. And I can concentrate. When I sit down to write, I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I can't afford it.
Toni Morrison, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Toni Morrison has an impressive body of work, but she was equally amazing when it comes to managing her time. She was an editor at Random House, a teacher of literature, and raised her two sons single-handedly. She did it by writing every chance she got and even sacrificing her social life. Morrison's example points to the stark simplicity and focus needed to juggle both parenthood and a constant creative output.
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