Forgiveness Quote by Ann Patchett

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being…

— Ann Patchett

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

“Some people get offended with what I write. In their own little pathetic world, they truly believe I should apologize for being a writer.”

— Daniel Marques

“I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on…

— Shannon Celebi

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our…

— Katie Kiesler

“Never hurt writers. They may forgive you, but their pen never does.”

— J. Alchem

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.”

— Stephen King

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell