A Quote by Arundhati Roy

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy
Indian - Writer
Born: November 24, 1961

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

I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.

Jaz Sinclair

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

O. Henry

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

Lian Hearn

As an actor you have good spells and bad spells.

Ncuti Gatwa

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Frederick Lenz

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

Richard Eberhart

'Acceptance' is a tricky word. Acceptance about what life is bringing us in a spiritual sense is one thing; but acceptance when there's injustice in the world is completely another.

Anoushka Shankar

The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.

Thomas McGuane

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Hilary Mantel

If there are three seamers, we don't need to be bowling long spells. Either way, it doesn't matter to me whether I am going to be bowling short or long spells.

Jofra Archer

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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