Best Writer 's Block Sayings

86 Writer 's Block quotes by 79 unique authors

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 might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of… — Susan Orlean
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that… — R L Stine
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter… — R L Stine
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? — Kurt Vonnegut
If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. — will.i.am
Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace. — Colm Toibin
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. — Norman Mailer
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But… — Anne Lamott
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into… — James N. Frey
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing… — Nick Cave
Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block. — Darby Conley
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how… — Charles Bukowski
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. — William Stafford
Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) — Scott Westerfeld
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the… — Richard Matheson
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott
... 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", and… — Alan Garner
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 with lurching, clichéd… — Jennifer Egan
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all — Charles Bukowski
Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You… — Cornelia Funke

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