Quotes About Block

I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

I could watch news, but that'd be too much like work. Plus, the idea of staying informed these days is an illusion - you pick whichever version of events you're going to believe and then block out anything that contradicts or undermines that view.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

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.

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

It took me a while to figure it out, but it was faster after I got around that mental block. Walk or die, that's the moral of this story. Simple as that. It's not survival of the physically fittest, that's where I went wrong when I let myself get into this. If it was, I'd have a fair chance. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. It isn't man or God. It's something... in the brain.

Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown.

themselves as blocked internally, unable to take the risk of moving into new and more satisfying artistic territory.

François Truffaut contended that critics were themselves blocked directors, as he had been when he was a critic.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

My ego is the wall between you and me.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

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

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.