Ralph Ellison Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  Ralph Ellison

  Writing, Past, Shadow

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.19, Vintage

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  Ralph Ellison

  Communication, Writing, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.176, Vintage

• I blundered into writing.

  Ralph Ellison

  Writing

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.14, Vintage

• I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

  Ralph Ellison

  Writing, Acceptance, Agony

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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