13 Quotes by James N. Frey

Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at theold typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing popsinto your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you dowhen this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

For some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

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.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you’ve got.

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

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.