Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, Kind Quotes

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.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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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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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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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.

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