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Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages. — Larry Kahaner

Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say. — Shanet Outing

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. — Norman Mailer

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. — Jacques Barzun

I knew all too well the damage of scarlet ink smeared across page-after-page ... — Jazz Feylynn

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. — Federico Chini

When the ink runs dry, you're most likely writing at the wrong angle. — Carolyn Shields

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

To get over artist's block, make shitty art. — Dave Horowitz

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. — Blaise Pascal

How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Don't ever let yourself surrender to writer's block. — Julie Wenzel

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block. — Dan Alatorre

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away! — David Batterson

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. — Gina McKnight

Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds. — Archana Kapoor Nagpal

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. — Carroll Bryant

Sometimes writing is hard. You know what's not hard? Watching Netflix. That's easy. — Beth Revis

If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write. — Joyce Rachelle

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do. — Lawrence Block

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog — Mark Rubinstein

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision. — Anthony Marra

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin

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

Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you. — Mary Papas

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better. — Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. — Giando Sigurani

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

You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. — John Rogers

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind. — Jazz Feylynn

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

When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process. — Lawrence Block

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

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing. — Niall Williams

There is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel. — Lawrence Block

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

Writer's block is just another name for fear. — Jacob Nordby

Time heals all wounds; some broken hearts
and most cases of writer's block. — Quentin R. Bufogle

There is always, always, always something to write about. — Rob Bignell, Editor

I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find something to write. — Peter Arpesella

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

Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all — Charles Bukowski

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I'm sitting in front of a typewriter. — Gary Reilly

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control. — Jazz Feylynn

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot. — John Gardner

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away. — Buffy Andrews

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some. — D.A. Botta

A writer is always writing for someone. — L.L. Barkat

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

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins. — E.L. James

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 write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. — Francois Mauriac

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. — Johnny Rich

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age. — Max Hawthorne

It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun

Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, be so smart — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine. — Sam Shepard

In mid-stroke of word and paper fusion — Jazz Feylynn

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. — Lawrence Block

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line. — Erica Jong

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

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

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

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

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. — Rob Bignell, Editor

I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media. — Julia Woodman

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

The only reason you can't write is because you don't. — A.A. Patawaran

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

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic. — Francesca Lia Block

Every bloody mark had assassinated my writing along the way. — Jazz Feylynn

Determined to enshroud his enchantment. — Jazz Feylynn

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. — Ally Spina

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. — Chriscinthia Blount

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. — Stephen King

Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly