Alice Walker Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

  Life, Art, Book

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Hatred, Littles

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

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Writing, Moon

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

• Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Violence, Sin

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

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

  Alice Walker

  Writing, People, Understanding

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

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

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Should Have, Want

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

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Sides, Jazz

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Song, Writing

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, People, Feelings

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Writing, Criticism

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Poet, Novel

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

  Alice Walker

  Suicide, Writing, World

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

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Interesting, Violence

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Kind, Bones

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Muse

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