Block Quotes

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

I've never had writer's block.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

I only get writer's block about once a day.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.