Quotes About Writer's block

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

Depuis vingt ans, je note « 58 » dans mes projets de livre. C'est le texte toujours manquant. Toujours remis. Le trou inqualifiable.

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

The most important formula you'll use when expressing yourself, conquering writer's block, presenting information on webinars, and overall, communicating more effectively, is W.W.H.W. — Why, What, How-To, What-If.

There was a young man of Dundoo, Whose limericks stopped at line 2.

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

Many people have a gift for language that flows when they are talking and dries up when they are confronted with the blank page

It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.

I had to go out and drink a little because I was going nutty writing this stuff. You can't imagine what a turmoil is in my head, how much I want to say, and how little is coming out. My head is bursting.

Who has not stared at the blank page and not been able to think of anything to write for what at least felt like six months? Getting started is the hardest bit, obviously.

The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.

Writing is, for some of us, the latch that keeps the door of the pen closed, keeps those crazy ravenous dogs contained

After tonight I will not date put pen to paper again. A blank page to me is like a drink to an alcoholic.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.