We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.
Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.
Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
If you're playing basketball, you're going to get your shot blocked.
That's one of the reasons I was drafted because I blocked three shots a game in college so I got to continue doing that in the NBA.
I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
There's a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons which I don't need to get into.
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.
How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.