“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
Strip from November 18, 2006
Bucky Katt
“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
“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
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
J.M. DeMatteis (1953) comics illustrator
moments don’t usually come at the keyboard. They come when I’m lying on the floor, staring into space (or banging my head against the wall in frustration). All of a sudden the Unconscious Camera turns on, a movie starts playing in my head-and there it is: The Big Moment. Or the Whole Damn Story. And, in many ways, I had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
A Conversation With The Legendary J.M. DeMatteis! (2004)
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls