By A Writer Quotes

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

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

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

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.

... 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 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 write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

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

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

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

I've never had writer's block.

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

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

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

I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes to eat a lot of steak.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

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

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

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.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

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

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

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.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

Do you drink?""Of course, I just said I was a writer.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Never Sell Yourself Short.