“Sometimes feeling blocked is simply a sign that we need to wait and let the natural course of events to unfold.” — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
“Whether a comment is bad, or good you are still inspiring people to read and write.” — John Hamrick Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
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?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The struggle for a life extracts all our attention, and leaves us blind, deaf, dumb and senseless. The writer, the artist, the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image