writers-block

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.

She meant you have to live a story for a time.''And?''And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?''Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.''Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.

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

Replace your old books with the books you__e always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

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

I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specific

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

Whenever I encounter writer__ block, I stop writing _ with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.

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

Writer's block is just another name for fear.