Alice Walker Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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