“I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“Allowing yourself to make mistakes can ultimately go beyond a writer’s block.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.” — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing… — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
“Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.” — Ally Spina Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit!… — Wolfgang Hilbig Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard . That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right… — Andy Ihnatko Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom is a great artist and she inspired me when I was young to sketch and draw, but I never took… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you’ve fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I then vowed to finally finish the years-late sequel to my best-selling book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. I… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.” — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do?… — Albert Sánchez Piñol Copy Share Image
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” — Strider Marcus Jones Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Begin your new story on a blank page, and like lonely footprints along a snowy path, the rest will follow...” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspired mood; the plane has to… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“She meant you have to live a story for a time.' 'And?' 'And then you can write it, in time. What have… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
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I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
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