Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
