alice walker

“ Each of us has knowledge of how to live life differently that no one taught us, and that we can find this knowledge inside ourselves and put it to use. ”

“ I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was seven or eight. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. ”

“ The artist is the voice of the people. ”

“ Keep track of family members; talk with them, work, and plan for the future with them, vacation with them, take them with you when you have something joyful to share. ”

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

“ Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. ”

“ That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart. ”

“ When life descends into the pit, I must become my own candle, willingly burning myself to light up the darkness around me. ”

“ 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 ”

“ Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book. ”