When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is…

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a…

— Maya Angelou

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should.…

— Ramez Naam

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office…

— Jess Walter

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

— Walter Benjamin

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

— Walter Benjamin

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning…

— Paul Rudnick

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it…

— Orson Scott Card

“I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

— Paul Rudnick

“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.”

— Jennifer Egan

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski