Writer's Block Quotes - Page 4

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

  Norman Mailer

  Block, Ego, Writer's Block

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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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• 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 such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  William Stafford

  Block, Enough, Lows

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

  Scott Westerfeld

  Block, Blow, Stories

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Writing, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 06, 2012

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• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  Questlove

  Block, Writing, Machines

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

  Joe Haldeman

  Block, Worry, Dies

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• I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Sex, Block

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

  Michael Connelly

  Block, Writing, Ethics

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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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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• Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

  Ben Harper

  Block, Mean, Needs

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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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• Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

  Homer Hickam

  Block, Character, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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