Filing Away Quotes
- So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,… — Ralph Ellison
- It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels… — Vincent Van Gogh
- The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away… — Vikas Swarup