Writers Block Quotes

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

David Batterson

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

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.

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

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

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

Candace Bushnell

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

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 so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.

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 a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

David Lindsay-Abaire

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

Albert Sánchez Piñol

In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."Page 68

Steven Pressfield

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.

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

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

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

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

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.

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.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

Susan J. McIntire

Every book has its ancestors

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Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

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Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

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I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

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One day I will write a book. An epitaph

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

Strider Marcus Jones

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 to have mythic proportions.

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 fiction.

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

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

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 notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

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 tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.

David Foster Wallace

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

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

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Writing is magic happening on paper

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Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

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Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

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Writing is self-pleasure

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Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

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If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

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If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

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The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

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Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

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Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

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A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

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Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

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People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

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The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

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You cannot write if you are not on fire

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How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

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You cannot write if you are not angry

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If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

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You never know what you will write until you write it

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