Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, People Quotes

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.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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It took me 40 years to write my first book.

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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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All bad writers are in love with the epic.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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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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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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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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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

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