When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and…

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact,…

— John Cage

“MAKE YOUR SILENCE EFFECTIVE RATHER THAN WORDS.”

— USMAN HYDER

This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room…

— Spike Milligan

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in…

— Freya Stark

“This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known,…

— Julian Barnes

“Make your silence violent to the dark part of the soul. Invade the dimension of bright ideas. Enforce your brilliant thoughts with greater actions”

— Klaudio Marashi

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel…

— Samantha Hunt

“I like the way you make the silence bearable.”

— T.M. Frazier

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,

— John Cage

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

— Guru Nanak

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think…

— Tony Kushner

“Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you’ve fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it from its…

— Shaun Hick

“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day…

— Lili St. Crow

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace

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