"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Alice Walker

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -”
“I am a villain, but I'm not your villain.”
“Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.”
“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Source : Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press
“Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.”
“Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.”
“Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.”

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