Any serious writer will tell you writers are controlled by the stories and the characters, that we are no more than any writing instrument.
So, let's take a look at writing quotes and see if they ring true to you.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs  Stephen King

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

Science Fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple; tell the damned story. Tom Clancy

Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne

And from my favorite source, Mark Twain:
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

(On a particularly long letter he had written) "If I had more time, it would have been shorter."

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very." Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.

As many of you know, I injured myself last year and the road to recovery has been a long one, including my inability to type.
I have begun to edit and revise my dark and steamy novel 'Betrayed', a first for me. You can find excerpts here: dmyatesjournalings.wordpress.com/

I use quotes to keep me motivated and here are some of my favorites that keep me motivated:

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”  The Red Queen

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.  When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.  Lao-Tzu 

If you’ve wondered where a certain road leads, take a turn and find out.  Thomas Kinkade

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Somebody once said: “The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is in how you use them.”  One Day at a Time in Al-Anon.

Few among men are they who cross over to the further shore.  The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.  The Dhammapada

(and my favorite)

• On the road to their destination

Lie the bleached bones
Of countless millions
Who – when at the brink of decision
Hesitated
And were lost.

I chose not to be lost nor to run up and down the bank.