The Best Description of What It's Like To Write I Have Ever Seen

I have been reading Angela Duckworth's book, Grit. Definitely worth a read especially when you're in a slump. My favorite part of the book comes at the end where she writes down words spoken by Ta-Nehisi Cates on the process of writing. So powerful. So true. 

The challenge of writing
Is to see your horribleness on page.
To see you terribleness
And then to go to bed.

And wake up the next day,
And take that horribleness and that terribleness,
And refine it,
And make it not so terrible and not so horrible.
And then to go to bed again.

And come the next day,
And refine it a little bit more,
And make it not so bad.
And then to go to bed the next day.

And do it again,
And make it maybe average.
And then one more time,
If you're lucky,
Maybe you get to good.

And if you've done that,
That's a success.