[Writers block] isn’t a physical thing – it isn’t a gorilla with a croquet mallet who smashes your hand every time you reach for the keyboard. You can get past it. You think past it. You write past it.
– Chuck Wendig
Tag: writer’s block
Quotable 239
You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
– John Rogers
Quotable 168
When I sit down in order to write, sometimes it’s there; sometimes it’s not. But that doesn’t bother me anymore. I tell my students there is such a thing as “writer’s block,” and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now.
– Toni Morrison
Pen to Paper: Writer’s Block
Very sorry, but no fiction again this week. Instead, I offer a spare essay.
Quotable 12
Your writing will develop more naturally if you resist the temptation, for the time being, to crown yourself Writer and continue simply to think of yourself as someone who is playing around.
– Victoria Nelson