Writer S Quotes

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.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.

Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.

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

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

Feels so good to be quoted

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!

Stretch your writing muscles. Maybe the sophisticated technique nagging at you is something you’re just naturally good at. How else will you know?

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.

I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.