Quotes by Writing Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. Alice Walker understandingwritingpeople If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. Alice Walker starsmoonwriting I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. Alice Walker writinglongthinking I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. Alice Walker should-havewantwriting Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. Alice Walker sinviolencewriting I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. Alice Walker hatredwritinglittles It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. Alice Walker feelingswritingpeople For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. Alice Walker boneskindwriting It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. Alice Walker criticismwritingchildren No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. Alice Walker motherwritingsong Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. Alice Walker suicidewritingworld Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity. Alice Walker violencewritinginteresting I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker poetnovelwriting My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being. Alice Walker motherwritingthinking I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch. Alice Walker musewritingthinking Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. Alice Walker generationsreadingwriting There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. Alice Walker jazzsideswriting I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. Alice Walker writingbookchildren How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies. Alice Weaver Flaherty colorwritingmen Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to. Alice Weaver Flaherty dogsleepwriting«3940414243444546474849»
