--- title: "217 Writer Block Quotes by 192 authors" description: "Browse 217 Writer Block quotes by 192 authors. Discover the best Writer Block sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/frank-ocean-2105_almost_i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year-1_1094848.jpg" --- > [I had writer's block for almost a year.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-ocean/i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year/) [Frank Ocean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-ocean/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/frank-ocean-2105_almost_i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year-1_1094848.jpg) > [Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/writer-s-block-is-only-a-failure-of-the-ego/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/norman-mailer-839_block_writer-s-block-is-only-a-failure-of-the_591108.png) > [I'm not really worried about writer's block.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-foster/i-m-not-really-worried-about-writer-s-block/) [Mark Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-foster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/mark-foster-5994_about_i-m-not-really-worried-about-writer-s-bl_2068284.jpg) > [“Writer's block is just another name for fear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-nordby/writer-s-block-is-just-another-name-for-fear/) [Jacob Nordby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-nordby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/jacob-nordby-14831_amwriting_writer-s-block-is-just-another-name-for_2163439.jpg) > [I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-guterson/i-became-paralyzed-as-an-artist-with-writer-s-block/) [David Guterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-guterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/829/david-guterson-8456_art_i-became-paralyzed-as-an-artist-with-wri_669911.png) > [Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-zebehazy/writer-s-block-is-the-greatest-side-effect-of-boredom/) [Jason Zebehazy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-zebehazy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/jason-zebehazy-42166_writing_writer-s-block-is-the-greatest-side-effe_919333.jpg) > [“A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buffy-andrews/a-tweet-a-day-keeps-writer-s-block-away/) [Buffy Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buffy-andrews/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/buffy-andrews-15201_quotes_a-tweet-a-day-keeps-writer-s-block-away_973579.jpg) > [Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-turner/television-it-s-a-gateway-to-writer-s-block-isn-t-it/) [Alex Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-turner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/alex-turner-9501_block_television-it-s-a-gateway-to-writer-s-bl_3082879.jpg) > [People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/people-have-writer-s-block-not-because-they-can-t-write-but-because/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/963/anonymous-1_block_people-have-writer-s-block-not-because-t_720937.jpg) > [Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-harper/don-t-be-discouraged-by-writer-s-block-writer-s-block-just-means-you/) [Ben Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-harper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26a/ben-harper-3257_block_don-t-be-discouraged-by-writer-s-block-w_1897669.png) > [I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-jon-williams/i-ve-experienced-writer-s-block-but-never-for-more-than-a-few-days/) [Walter Jon Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-jon-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/065/walter-jon-williams-11442_block_i-ve-experienced-writer-s-block-but-neve_238186.jpg) > [The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeph-jacques/the-trick-to-writer-s-block-is-to-sack-up-and-write-through-it-you-see/) [Jeph Jacques](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeph-jacques/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/jeph-jacques-29234_block_the-trick-to-writer-s-block-is-to-sack-u_462558.jpg) > [“Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-papas/writer-s-block-is-when-your-imaginary-friends-won-t-talk-to-you/) [Mary Papas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-papas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f0/mary-papas-31179_authors_writer-s-block-is-when-your-imaginary-fr_2440595.jpg) > [There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-stafford/there-is-no-such-thing-as-writer-s-block-for-writers-whose-standards/) [William Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-stafford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a3/william-stafford-8165_block_there-is-no-such-thing-as-writer-s-block_1224834.png) > [“Writer’s block is akin to a “vacancy” sign; if you wait long enough they will eventually fill.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nanette-l-avery/writer-s-block-is-akin-to-a-vacancy-sign-if-you-wait-long-enough-they/) [Nanette L. Avery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nanette-l-avery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/nanette-l-avery-21317_vacancy_writer-s-block-is-akin-to-a-vacancy-sign_828436.jpg) > [“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-haven-t-had-writer-s-block-i-think-it-s-because-my-process-involves/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/jennifer-egan-825_block_i-haven-t-had-writer-s-block-i-think-it_525153.jpg) > [I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-picoult/i-don-t-believe-in-writer-s-block-most-of-writer-s-block-is-having/) [Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-picoult/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e53/jodi-picoult-45_believe_i-don-t-believe-in-writer-s-block-most-o_1597960.jpg) > [ Now \[Sue Grafton\] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-o-connor/now-sue-grafton-loves-writer-s-block-seeing-it-as-a-message-from-the/) Colleen O'Connor [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/colleen-o-connor-228989_block_now-sue-grafton-loves-writer-s-block-see_2594360.jpg) > [I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-kiedis/i-had-to-educate-him-that-there-was-no-such-thing-as-writer-s-block/) [Anthony Kiedis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-kiedis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2eb/anthony-kiedis-2509_block_i-had-to-educate-him-that-there-was-no-s_2348720.jpg) > [I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-eggers/i-don-t-get-a-lot-of-writer-s-block-because-it-s-all-based-on/) [Robert Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-eggers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/robert-eggers-6047_days_i-don-t-get-a-lot-of-writer-s-block-beca_3008958.jpg) > [Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/deciding-to-write-a-novel-about-something-as-opposed-to-finding-you/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/martin-amis-704_block_deciding-to-write-a-novel-about-somethin_279596.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-goldberg/there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-writer-s-block-if-you-re-having-trouble/) [Natalie Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/natalie-goldberg-1741_activity_there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-writer-s-bloc_1515064.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard/i-ve-never-suffered-from-writer-s-block-i-have-plenty-of-ideas/) [J. G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9f/j-g-ballard-2711_block_i-ve-never-suffered-from-writer-s-block_1445486.jpg) > [ This condition \[irony\] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-geok-lin-lim/this-condition-irony-has-nothing-to-do-with-writer-s-block-a/) [Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-geok-lin-lim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/977/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_block_this-condition-irony-has-nothing-to-do-w_2432084.png) > [I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-blume/i-don-t-believe-in-writer-s-block-there-are-good-days-when-you-re/) [Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-blume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecc/judy-blume-2002_believe_i-don-t-believe-in-writer-s-block-there_2335871.jpg) > [I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-ve-never-worked-a-day-in-my-life-the-joy-of-writing-has-propelled/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/127/ray-bradbury-75_being-joyful_i-ve-never-worked-a-day-in-my-life-the-j_327138.jpg) > [“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-peter-clark/if-you-want-to-write-here-s-a-secret-the-writer-s-struggle-is/) [Roy Peter Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-peter-clark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de8/roy-peter-clark-22013_excuses_if-you-want-to-write-here-s-a-secret-the_839306.png) > [As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kanika-dhillon/as-a-director-you-have-to-live-and-breathe-that-one-story-for-8/) [Kanika Dhillon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kanika-dhillon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/kanika-dhillon-17688_boredom_as-a-director-you-have-to-live-and-breat_2157600.jpg) > [I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-haven-t-had-trouble-with-writer-s-block-i-think-it-s-because-my-2/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/jennifer-egan-825_be-good_i-haven-t-had-trouble-with-writer-s-bloc_2644374.jpg) > [Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-d-wilson/writer-s-block-so-what-write-something-bad-just-throw-it-in-the-trash/) [N.D. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-d-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a5/n-d-wilson-2571_always-improving_writer-s-block-so-what-write-something-b_507646.jpg) > [In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-saramago/in-the-end-i-am-quite-normal-i-don-t-have-odd-habits-i-don-t/) [Jose Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-saramago/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/jos-saramago-208_anguish_in-the-end-i-am-quite-normal-i-don-t-hav_2199198.png) > [I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-brooks/i-would-also-argue-that-there-is-a-good-chance-that-an-outline-will/) [Terry Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/terry-brooks-3252_advise_i-would-also-argue-that-there-is-a-good_1329199.jpg) > [Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/writer-s-block-is-my-unconscious-mind-telling-me-that-something-i-ve/) [Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fa/orson-scott-card-134_block_writer-s-block-is-my-unconscious-mind-te_1220434.jpg) > [“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-isle/creative-exhaustion-is-first-cousin-to-writer-s-block-first-off-i-try/) Sue Isle [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/319/sue-isle-149000_time_creative-exhaustion-is-first-cousin-to-w_1890701.jpg) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-never-have-suffered-writer-s-block-although-i-ve-had-books-that/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/margaret-atwood-40_abandoned_i-never-have-suffered-writer-s-block-alt_376571.jpg) > [“The other thing that I would say about writer's block is that it can be very, very subjective. By which I mean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-other-thing-that-i-would-say-about-writer-s-block-is-that-it-can/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/082/neil-gaiman-29_subjectivity_the-other-thing-that-i-would-say-about-w_2851340.jpg) > [“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence− then about a minute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-harper/it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-block-for-days-now-i-literally/) [Emily Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-harper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/emily-harper-25289_better-day_it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-b_2650881.jpg) > [“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever-get-writer-s-block-i-tell/) [Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/abhijit-naskar-99_diversity-and-inclus_would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever_2438194.jpg) > [“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-harmon/my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-the-reason-you-re-having-a/) [Dan Harmon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-harmon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/dan-harmon-7587_bad-thing_my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-t_1920483.jpg) > [The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-ward/the-stories-just-keep-showing-up-in-my-head-and-i-really-hope-they/) [J.R. Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-ward/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/j-r-ward-148_block_the-stories-just-keep-showing-up-in-my-h_2358947.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer-block/#itemlist", "name": "Writer Block Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I had writer's block for almost a year.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frank Ocean" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-ocean/i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/frank-ocean-2105_almost_i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year-1_1094848.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/frank-ocean-2105_almost_i-had-writer-s-block-for-almost-a-year-1_1094848.jpg", "url": 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The following day, when I actually come to look at what has been written, I will usually look at what I did the day before, and think, \"That's not quite as bad as I remember. All I need to do is delete that line and move that sentence around and its fairly usable. It's not that bad.\" What is really sad and nightmarish (and I should add, completely unfair, in every way. And I mean it -- utterly, utterly, unfair!) is that two years later, or three years later, although you will remember very well, very clearly, that there was a point in this particular scene when you hit a horrible Writer's Block from Hell, and you will also remember there was point in this particular scene where you were writing and the words dripped like magic diamonds from your fingers -- as if the Gods were speaking through you and every sentence was a thing of beauty and magic and brilliance. You can remember just as clearly that there was a point in the story, in that same scene, when the characters had turned into pathetic cardboard cut-outs and nothing they said mattered at all. You remember this very, very clearly. The problem is you are now doing a reading and you cannot for the life of you remember which bits were the gifts of the Gods and dripped from your fingers like magical words and which bits were the nightmare things you just barely created and got down on paper somehow!! Which I consider most unfair. As a writer, you feel like one or the other should be better. I wouldn't mind which. I'm not somebody who's saying, \"I really wish the stuff from the Gods was better.\" I wouldn't mind which way it went. I would just like one of them to be better. Rather than when it's a few years later, and you're reading the scene out loud and you don't know, and you cannot tell. It's obviously all written by the same person and it all gets the same kind of reaction from an audience. No one leaps up to say, \"Oh look, that paragraph was clearly written on an 'off' day.\" It is very unfair. 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Obviously not one of my better days.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Emily Harper" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-harper/it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-block-for-days-now-i-literally/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/emily-harper-25289_better-day_it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-b_2650881.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/emily-harper-25289_better-day_it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-b_2650881.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/emily-harper-25289_better-day_it-s-just-so-typical-i-ve-had-writer-s-b_2650881.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence−…” — Emily Harper", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 38, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in one language and culture. Like the wind, I think, feel and live in numerous languages and cultures, which keeps me ever-ripe with more ideas than I could put down on pages. Whether you are a writer or not, learn a language - it not only expands your head, it expands your heart, and makes you more humane. Porque, un idioma es una autopista a una cultura. A language is a freeway to a culture. Thus, learning a language is one of the tangible endeavors to help eliminate hate from the world.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abhijit Naskar" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever-get-writer-s-block-i-tell/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/abhijit-naskar-99_diversity-and-inclus_would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever_2438194.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/abhijit-naskar-99_diversity-and-inclus_would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever_2438194.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/abhijit-naskar-99_diversity-and-inclus_would-be-writers-often-ask-me-do-i-ever_2438194.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're…” — Abhijit Naskar", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 39, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material, because guess what, man, we don’t like to admit it, because we’re raised to think lack of confidence is synonymous with paralysis, but, let’s just be honest with ourselves and each other: we can only hope to be good writers. We can only ever hope and wish that will ever happen, that’s a bird in the bush. The one in the hand is: we suck. We are terrified we suck, and that terror is oppressive and pervasive because we can VERY WELL see the possibility that we suck. We are well acquainted with it. We know how we suck like the backs of our shitty, untalented hands. We could write a fucking book on how bad a book would be if we just wrote one instead of sitting at a desk scratching our dumb heads trying to figure out how, by some miracle, the next thing we type is going to be brilliant. It isn’t going to be brilliant. You stink. Prove it. It will go faster. And then, after you write something incredibly shitty in about six hours, it’s no problem making it better in passes, because in addition to being absolutely untalented, you are also a mean, petty CRITIC. You know how you suck and you know how everything sucks and when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it, because you’re an asshole. So that is my advice about getting unblocked. Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft. Fifteen drafts later, or whenever someone paying you starts yelling at you, who knows, maybe the piece of shit will be good enough or maybe everyone in the world will turn out to be so hopelessly stupid that they think bad things are good and in any case, you get to spend so much less time at a keyboard and so much more at a bar where you really belong because medicine because childhood trauma because the Supreme Court didn’t make abortion an option until your unwanted ass was in its third trimester. Happy hunting and pecking!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Harmon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-harmon/my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-the-reason-you-re-having-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/dan-harmon-7587_bad-thing_my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-t_1920483.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/dan-harmon-7587_bad-thing_my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-t_1920483.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/dan-harmon-7587_bad-thing_my-best-advice-about-writer-s-block-is-t_1920483.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a…” — Dan Harmon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 40, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm told, and as long as I do that, I don't have any problems with writer's block or anything. The issues come only when I try to force the story or the people in it to do things they don't want to. As a control freak, it's funny that I've learned to be so comfortable with being out of control in what is arguably one of the most important areas of my life!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.R. 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