No Writers Block Quotes

#1. There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.

Jordano Quaglia

#2. The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#3. Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#4. The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

Carroll Bryant

#5. Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
[There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block: Blog post, October 7, 2001]

Andy Ihnatko

#6. Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

Chriscinthia Blount

#7. If only my sunscreen was as good as my writers block!

Martin Link

#8. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#9. Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

H. Raven Rose

#10. I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions.

Steve Merrick

#11. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Erica Jong

#12. Writer's block is just another name for fear.

Jacob Nordby

#13. Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.
-pg 237

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#14. I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

Susan Orlean

#15. I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.

Larry Kahaner

#16. For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#18. The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

D.A. Botta

#19. No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to ... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

Lynda Barry

#20. If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while ...

John Geddes

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

William Stafford

#22. Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#23. The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.

John Gardner

#24. Especially when writers are just starting out, the emphasis should be not only upon what they write, but equally upon the process of writing. A successful class is a class where no one feels that 'writer's block' is a high-priority subject.

Mary Oliver

#25. 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.

Anthony Kiedis

#26. I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

Bret Michaels

#27. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

Blaise Pascal

#28. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#29. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Fennel Hudson

#30. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Francois Mauriac

#31. I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

D.A. Botta

#32. Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Charles Bukowski

#33. Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#34. Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

#35. Over analysis leads to paralysis

Rebecca Jane

#36. 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.

Jim Rash

#37. Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti

#38. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#39. There is always, always, always something to write about.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#40. Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Thomas Bernhard

#41. Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.

Larry Kahaner

#42. The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#43. I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'

Lorrie Moore

#44. Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

B.A. Gabrielle

#45. I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

Tyler Hojberg

#46. Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.

Scott Westerfeld

#47. When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

Strider Marcus Jones

#48. Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.

Cecilia Bartholomew

#49. Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#50. To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

Johnny Rich