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• ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

  Nick Harkaway

  Block, Writing, Skills

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• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  Randy Newman

  Block, Four, Remember

  "20 most interesting people visiting Indiana this fall" by David Lindquist, www.indystar.com. August 31, 2014.

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

  Jeph Jacques

  Block, Writing, Tricks

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• 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

  Block, Moving, Writing

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• 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.

  Irving Stone

  Weed, Block, Writing

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• 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.

  James N. Frey

  Block, Typewriters, Next

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Block, Voice, Iphone

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

  Karen Karbo

  Block, Trying, Want

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• For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

  Mary Garden

  Block, Years, Long

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• 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

  Block, Writing, Educate

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• Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

  Hugh Jackman

  Block, Soon Enough, Ideas

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• he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

  Emily Barton

  Block, Needs, Reason

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Block, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Suicide, Sweet, Art

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

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Literature

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• If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Morning

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Block, Waiting

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• I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Reality, Thinking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• 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.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Thinking, Expression

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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

  Matt Haig

  Block, Triggers, Cures

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• If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

  Lydia Davis

  Thinking, People, Terror

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

  Cornelia Funke

  Lonely, Block, Friendly

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• Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

  Regina Brett

  Block, Pages, Blank

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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