What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your...

Professional writers don’t have muses; they have mortgages.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

When words don’t come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing.” ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

To get over artist’s block, make shitty art.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the...

writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write...

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed...

Writing is hard. That’s why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.”[There Is No Such Thing as Writers’...

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer’s block.

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 say that as if it’s a bad thing.Fenoglio: Oh no, it’s just...

She meant you have to live a story for a time.”And?”And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?”Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.”Kind of the perfect question to answer in...

Failing to writer everyday doesn’t mean that you’ve given up, though a chapter a day – keeps writers block away!

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn’t let me write the words.

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.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had...

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Writing isn’t difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

Writer’s block is just another name for fear.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling...

Considering I’m a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

There is always, always, always something to write about.

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in…it’s actually kind of...

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?

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

I haven’t written in a week. It’s like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

I don’t believe in writers’ block. Do doctors have ‘doctors block?’ Do plumbers have ‘plumbers’ block?” No. We all have days when we don’t feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something...

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

You don’t have to take it out on my typewrite ya’ know. It’s not the machine’s fault that you can’t write. It’s a sin to do that to a good machine.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.