Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, Poet Quotes

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.

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When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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Grammar is the analysis of language.

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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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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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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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