86 Quotes About Writer-s-block

I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.

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

My thoughts are stale, I baby-step from humdrum this to dreary that with no sense of direction, trudging and prosaic, dead-brained, ordinary, dull. I need to put a match to these dry sticks, I need to flame some fireworks in my mind. But I can’t even smell the fuel.

The true writers never run out of things to say. What they run out of (sometimes) is the desire to say them.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

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

A myriad of reasons contribute to writer’s block including anxiety, neurological impediments associated with the fight or flight concept, life changes of the writer, fear of rejection, fatigue, illness, sleep deprivation, mood disorders, drug or alcohol abuse, lack of inspiration, distraction by pressing events, and other diversionary interests.

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

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!