Writer's Block Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such thing as writer's block. It's to the degree that you want to write. The thing is that these things show up whenever they feel like it.

  Jon Fratelli

  Block, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Lights

  Block, Insecure, Sight

  Source: thelala.com

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

  Richard Powers

  Block, Writing, Years

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• For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

  Mary Garden

  Block, Years, Long

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• I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you're already writing about what's going to happen to you, whether you know it or not. That's why I'm always surprised when people talk about writer's block. Because to me, it can't be stopped.

  Grant Morrison

  Block, Real, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Reality, Thinking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Thinking, Expression

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

  Karen Karbo

  Block, Trying, Want

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• If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Morning

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Block, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

  Emily Barton

  Block, Needs, Reason

  Source: therumpus.net

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