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Alice Walker Quotes about Writing

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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.

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.

Writing, Thinking, Long

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

Writing, People, Understanding

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.195, Hachette UK

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.

Stars, Writing, Moon

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.85, The New Press

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.

Mother, Writing, Thinking

Source: www.timeout.com

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Writing, Should Have, Want

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

Writing, Hatred, Littles

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.62, Hachette UK

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.

Children, Writing, Criticism

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.

Writing, Kind, Bones

"Alice Walker Offers Advice on Writing". Interview with Jessica Strawser, www.writersdigest.com. August 31, 2010.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing, Violence, Sin

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

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.

Writing, People, Feelings

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.

Reading, Writing, Generations

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.20, New Press, The

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.

Writing, Thinking, Muse

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.

Mother, Song, Writing

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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.

Writing, Interesting, Violence

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Suicide, Writing, World

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.61, Rutgers University Press

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.

Writing, Poet, Novel

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Writing, Sides, Jazz

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.

Children, Book, Writing

Source: www.blackfilm.com

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