Writer's Block Quotes - Page 6

• I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

  Dean Young

  Block, Believe, Writing

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

  Mary Garden

  Block, Kind, Illness

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• [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.

  Judd Nelson

  Block, Dark, Lakes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Elmore Leonard

  Block, Believe, Littles

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• I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Block, Writing

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

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• I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.

  Sue Grafton

  Block, Writing, Anchors

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

  Diane Ackerman

  Block, Luxury, People

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• Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

  James N. Frey

  Block, Real, Book

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• ... 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.

  Alan Garner

  Block, Thinking, Waiting

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• Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

  Cornelia Funke

  Lonely, Block, Friendly

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

  Lydia Davis

  Thinking, People, Terror

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• 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.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Block, Writing, Educate

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• he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.

  N.D. Wilson

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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

  Matt Haig

  Block, Triggers, Cures

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• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Block, Waiting

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

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Block, Writing, Excuse

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 6, 2014.

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• Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

  Hugh Jackman

  Block, Soon Enough, Ideas

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  Terry Brooks

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Luxury, People

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• If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Block, Crazy, Writing

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

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Literature

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

  James Rollins

  Block, Book, Years

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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

  Regina Brett

  Block, Pages, Blank

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