“You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.”
Source: The Color Purple
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Famous Alice Walker Quotes
Source: Everyday Use
Source: Everyday Use
“There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
Source: Everyday Use
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
Source: Everyday Use