132 Quotes About Writers-block

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

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.

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

I am a poet in search of inspiration. But she is eluding me. Do I wait for her to come to me?

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

I will be Gulliver and let you stand up on my shoulders so you could see. I will be a monstrosity, if that is what you need me to be.

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

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.