Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. — Gene Fowler
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. — Keith Richards
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. — Sylvia Plath
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. — Charles Bukowski
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper. — Jimmy Breslin
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. — T. S. Eliot
Short Writers Block Quotes
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. — Louise Brooks
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. — Lynn Abbey
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. — James Joyce
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. — Helen Dunmore
Writers Block Image Quotes
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while aware.
No Writer's Block Quotes
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something. — Nikki Giovanni
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett
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. — R. L. Stine
If you wish to be a writer, write.
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. — R. L. Stine
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. — Jeffery Deaver
The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind. — Maggie O'Farrell
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity
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. — Jon Fratelli
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. — Michael Connelly
Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research. — Sophy Burnham
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. — Natalie Goldberg
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Writer's Block Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain
It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. — C. J. Cherryh
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. — Paul Rudnick
I'm a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd. — James N. Frey
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. — Octavia Butler
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. — Joseph Campbell
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
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
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. — Toni Morrison
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write. — Philip Sidney
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. — Jodi Picoult
Creative Block Quotes
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education. — Victor Papanek
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Tony Robbins
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence? — Alexi Murdoch
You don't want to block the pain too much. Without the pain what we would talk about.
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. — Anne Rice
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art. — Ava DuVernay
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem. — Julia Cameron
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves. — Julia Cameron
Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your finances are as well. If your energy is blocked, your money does too. — Shakti Gawain
The scariest moment is always just before you start. — Stephen King
Usually, I’ll give them homework—a small, doable task. I’ll give you an example. There was an artist I was working with recently who hadn’t made an album in a long time, and he was struggling with finishing anything. He just had this version of a writer’s block. But I would give him very doable homework assignments that almost seemed like a joke. ‘Tonight, I want you to write one word in this song that needs five lines, that you can’t finish. I just want one word that you like by tomorrow. Do you think that you could come up with one word? — Rick Rubin
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. — Anne Lamott
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. — Jeffery Deaver
I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad! — Judy Blume
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift. — Tony Gaskins
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”) — Richard Matheson
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. — Pete Wentz
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. — Norman Mailer
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers is great. You have to look for inspiration because sometimes music isn't the only thing that you can look at. — Taylor Momsen
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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. — Frederik Pohl
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.' — Maya Angelou
If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that. — Lydia Davis
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it. — Dean Young
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. — Ray Bradbury
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. — Jose Saramago
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it! — J. K. Rowling
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all — Charles Bukowski
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. — Walter Jon Williams
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too. — Jim Harrison
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. — Lights
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written. — Walter Benjamin
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of writers block quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about writers block to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of writers block quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
