Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walkeris an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purplefor which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, among other works...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 February 1944
CityEatonton, GA
CountryUnited States of America
children book writing
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
writing poet novel
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
children writing criticism
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
reading writing generations
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
writing people feelings
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.
writing should-have want
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
mother song writing
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
writing kind bones
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
writing sides jazz
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
suicide writing world
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
writing interesting violence
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
mother writing thinking
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 with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
writing thinking muse
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
writing hatred littles
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.