Writer S Block Quotes

Writer S Block Quote of the day

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Art is not in some far-off place.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

I don't believe in writer's block.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.