Block Quote by Adam Gopnik Download Open image “Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.” — Adam Gopnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Block Language Simplicity Wall Writing
ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems,… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. — Meg Cabot 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
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience",… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get… — Jose James Copy Share Image
The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. — Jeph Jacques Copy Share Image
“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.” — Jennifer Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.” — Giando Sigurani 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 for that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away! — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most… — Styles P Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society. — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on… — Diplo Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image