Block Quote by Colm Toibin Download Open image “Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.” — Colm Toibin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Block Exist Go Going away Ideas Long Peace Writer 's block Writing
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. — Elmore Leonard 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 going to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such thing as… — Jon Fratelli Copy Share Image
The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a… — Neil Gaiman 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 writing about… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up… — J. G. Ballard 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. Certain subjects… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls.… — Colm Toibin 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