Before Quote by Alice Walker Download Open image “My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.” — Alice Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Before Crawling Dirt Mother Parenting Says Twig Writing Wrote
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… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy 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
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My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there. — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
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But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
