Top 1200 Writer's Block Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe in writer's block.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

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

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

I had writer's block for almost a year.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.

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.

Writer's block is a fiction.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

... 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.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

I've never had writer's block.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that means you're going to get stuck. I wouldn't call it writer's block, I'd say, "I don't know where the hell this story is going."

Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such thing as writer's block. It's to the degree that you want to write. The thing is that these things show up whenever they feel like it.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

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

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

I only get writer's block about once a day.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.