Art Quote by E. B. White

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't,…

— Anthony Kiedis

“He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but…

— Stephen King

“Had I a ropemaker to my father, and someone had cast it in my teeth, I would forthwith have written in praise of ropemakers,…

— Thomas Nashe

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

— Cory Doctorow

“We cannot climb up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.” William Ernest Hocking”

— Al-Anon Family Groups

“I’d never trust a surgeon who didn’t wear gloves when he operated. Even if those gloves he didn’t wear were boxing gloves. He might…

— Jarod Kintz

“Even the imperative to make choice after choice without clear guidance - allegedly the most nerve-wracking part of the profession - isn't exclusive to…

— Daniel B. Smith

“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.”

— Robert Penn Warren

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really…

— Havelock Ellis

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back…

— Ruth Downie