I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

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.

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.

I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block.

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

Art is not in some far-off place.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

I’d like to do this, or that.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it’s lost.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

I’ve always said “Writer’s Block” is a myth. There is no such thing as writer’s block, only writers trying to force something that isn’t ready yet. Sometimes I don’t write for weeks. And then all...

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave...

Writer’s block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.

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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 if you accept the reality that you have been given-...

On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year and the big purse of my bodyI bitterly take to task my poverty and...

Theoretically there’s no reason one should get [writer’s block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately...

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don’t have a problem with your door.

Jednog dana, pisac otkriva da nije više u stanju ništa da napiše. Šta god pokuša, kojim god putem krene, ne uspeva da stigne do celovite rečenice. U prvi mah, pisac se ne predaje i pokušava...

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer’s block is to write a lot.

writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.

She’s thinking that what she’s been doing all these years isn’t what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn’t. Lately that happens more and more,...

…if you’ve got writer’s block, you aren’t empty – maybe it’s just like Twitter – overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while…

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 can you teach anybody how to write? It’s beyond me,...

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier....

I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you’re trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try...

How do you paint a writer’s block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I’m typing from dictation, edits like I didn’t write it, and finishes like I couldn’t possibly have written it.

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and...

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.