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• Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

  Robert B. Parker

  Block, Complaining, Heard

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• I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Typewriters, Office

  Richard Matheson (2003). “Collected Stories”, Gauntlet Press

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

  Elmore Leonard

  Block, Believe, Inspiration

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• 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.

  R. L. Stine

  Cheating, Block, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  Norman Mailer

  Block, Ego, Writer's Block

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• I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

  Susan Orlean

  Block, Spring, Garden

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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

  Anne Lamott

  Doors, Wife, House

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.178, Anchor

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• 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.

  R. L. Stine

  Block, Writing, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  will.i.am

  Block, Know How, Knows

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

  Darby Conley

  Block, Good Writers, Writer's Block

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

  Carl Hiaasen

  Block, Unemployment, Writer's Block

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• 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.

  Frederik Pohl

  Morning, Block, Typewriters

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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers is great. You have to look for inspiration because sometimes music isn't the only thing that you can look at.

  Taylor Momsen

  Block, Inspiration, Writing

  www.seventeen.com. January 27, 2010.

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

  Sarah McLachlan

  Block, Writing, Writer's Block

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• Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

  Scott Westerfeld

  Block, Blow, Stories

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• Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Children, Block

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• Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

  Colleen O'Connor

  Block, Writing, Narrative

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

  William Stafford

  Block, Enough, Lows

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• I've never had writer's block.

  David Byrne

  Block, Writer's Block

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• When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!

  John Fogerty

  Suicide, Block, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.

  Jeff Daniels

  Mistake, Block, Play

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Block

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

  Walter Jon Williams

  Block, Writer's Block

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

  Sue Grafton

  Block, Writer's Block

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• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  Sarah Kay

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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