“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright

“"Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

“There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”

William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor

“There is much for a young writer to learn from our poorest writers. It is very destructive to burn bad books, almost more destructive than to burn good ones.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer