Acceptance Quote by Ralph Ellison

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

— Arundhati Roy

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista