#rite

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#dialogue #i #most #most amazing #quentin

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#fame #heal #healthy #healthy person #helps

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#blog #crippled #generations #i #i do

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#become #case #children #critics #healthier

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #care #feel #feeling #get

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #better #book #deliver #earth

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#every #every time #get #i #i write

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#book #come #dna #ever #had

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it! ↗

— Alexander Wang

#even #everything #got #i #like