Writer 's block Quotes · Page 3

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

— Jennifer Egan

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

— Elmore Leonard

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

— Francois Mauriac

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Paul Rudnick

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

— Michael Connelly

“Anything would be better than these blotches coloured with self-pity and self-importance. Plagued scribbles that sink the heart and darken the soul.…

— Marcel M. du Plessis

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when…

— Anthony Kiedis

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel…

— Richard Matheson

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…

— Jodi Picoult

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as…

— Alan Garner

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete…

— R. L. Stine

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her…

— Leila Cobo

Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That…

— N.D. Wilson

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to…

— Nick Cave

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by…

— Sue Grafton

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from…

— Taylor Momsen

Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such…

— Jon Fratelli

Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and…

— James N. Frey

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things…

— Karen Karbo

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

— Terry Pratchett

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

— Steve Martin

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

— Meg Cabot

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

— Nikki Giovanni

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

— Etgar Keret

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

— Anne Lamott

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

— Don Roff

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

— Carl Hiaasen

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

— Darby Conley

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.”

— John Rogers

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

— Lydia Davis

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

— Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

— Sophy Burnham