I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin 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
“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you're already… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
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've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach 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
“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
“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
“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 know why I get jealous, since you don't make money or get any attention for it, but I guess it's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“The other thing that I would say about writer's block is that it can be very, very subjective. By which I mean,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
