I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice Walker
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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... →
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's... →
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the... →
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest... →
Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.
Ally Walker