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  • Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

    Mistake   Block   Sweat  
    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.
  • You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken
  • We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

    "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.
  • 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.'

    Writing   Serious   Muse  
    "Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.
  • I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.

  • The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  • That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

    FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 06, 2012
  • The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

  • It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

    Writing   Long   Garbage  
  • If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

    Party   Sleep   Exercise  
    FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Nov 03, 2012
  • Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

  • A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

    "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.
  • 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.

    Block   Book   Writing  
  • Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

    Running   Writing   Ideas  
    Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.47, Harvard University Press
  • I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.

    Beautiful   Block   Taken  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  • Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

  • You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

    Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

    Writing   Men   Pieces  
    James Thurber, The Bermudian Magazine, November 1950.
  • I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

  • Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

    E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). “Conversations with E.L. Doctorow”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

    Writing   Effort   Needs  
    Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.25, Anchor
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  • Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

  • 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.

  • If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 05, 2014
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