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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

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

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

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

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

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

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

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

Art is not in some far-off place.

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

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

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

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

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

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

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

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

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

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

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

I've never had writer's block.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

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

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

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.

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 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.

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