Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Writing Quotes

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.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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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.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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