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Quotes About Block

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
~ Mary Garden
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
~ Errol Morris
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'
~ Rodney Crowell
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
~ Damon Galgut
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
~ Octavia Spencer
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Madame Chantal?a large woman whose ideas always strike me as being square-shaped, like stones dressed by a mason?was in the habit of concluding any political discussion with the remark: 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap'. Why have I always imagined that Madame Chantal's ideas are square? I've no idea, but everything she says goes into that shape in my mind: a block?a large one?with four symmetrical angles.
~ Guy de Maupassant
It was all so damn fragile, that was the thing. Obvious, for sure,but for the most part we block - we refuse to think about how easily our lives could be torn asunder, because when we recognize it, we lose our minds. The ones who are fearful all the time, who need to medicate to function? It is because they understand the reality, how thin the line is. It isn't that they can't accept the truth - its that they can't block it.
~ Harlan Coben
Shauna and Linda rent a three-bedroom apartment on Riverside Drive and 116 Street, not far from Columbia University. I'd managed to find a spot within a block, an act that usually accompanies a parting sea or stone tablet. Shauna
~ Harlan Coben
Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.
~ Dev Hynes
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.
~ Sir Martin Archer Shee
Just get out of your own way.
~ Rajneesh
The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
~ Nichkhun
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
~ Sarah Zettel
I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.
~ Sam Jaeger
Are you aware of the penalties reserved for freethinkers? I could send you to the block. Good.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
I actually have Robert Kardashian blocked from my Instagram.
~ Blac Chyna
With UsuraWith usura hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fitting.
~ Ezra Pound
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
~ Floyd Abrams
The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.
~ Frances Hardinge
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
~ Lynn Nottage