The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may… — Stephen King 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
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
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… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
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… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when… — Lights Copy Share Image
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
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… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find… — Peter Arpesella Copy Share Image
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.” — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
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… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“Writer's Block I sit down peacefully with my book. Upon the blank page I look. As i tap my pen patiently, patiently,… — Edward James Copy Share Image
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image