When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

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On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year and the big purse of my bodyI bitterly take to task my poverty and craft:To take to give is all, return what is hungrily givenPuffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven,The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft.To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing deathThat will rake at last all currencies of the marked breathAnd count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark.To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice.Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seasIf I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.

~ Dylan Thomas

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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

~ Charles Bukowski

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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

~ Anne Lamott

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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

~ Jacques Barzun

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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

~ Anne Lamott

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People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.

~ Roman Payne

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Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

~ Meagan Spooner

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I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

~ Richard Matheson

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I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

~ Stephen King

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I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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Art is not in some far-off place.

~ Lydia Davis

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She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn't. Lately that happens more and more, and she can't seem to find what she had and what made her special. But she can't tell her father because he'd be so disappointed in her, so disappointed to find out she's not extraordinary after all.

~ Leila Cobo

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I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov didn't like each other and agreed on very few things, but they were of one opinion on this: you had to write constantly. If you can't write a major work, write minor trifles. If you can't write at all, orchestrate something.

~ Dmitri Shostakovich

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I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.

~ Kevin Focke

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I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

~ Tyler Hojberg

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This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

~ Lydia Davis

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My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

~ Gary Reilly

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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

~ John Gardner

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Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.

~ John Gardner

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The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

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The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.

~ John Gardner

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Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

~ Chriscinthia Blount

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I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier. And that doesn't seem fair. I mean, I've been doing it so surely I should be getting better at it, at least a little bit blasé... And it seems to be working absolutely the opposite. This book [Big Brother] I had no confidence in the entirety of its composition, and I only decided I liked it when I finished the very final draft. This means I'm in a state of semi-misery for a long time. And I can't blithely seem either that's some little game I'm playing with myself because, you know, you can easily come along and you don't like what's you're writing for good reason. Right? So, yeah, it's very anxious making, I don't think it's so much the becoming a little more successful, I think it's becoming slightly more aware of how much has already been written, and just becoming less self-impressed as the years go by. More impressed with some people who are better than I am, but... It doesn't wow me that I can write a sentence any more. It has to be a really good sentence. And... I think that's what potentially leads to paralysis in late career, is a kind of killing humility.Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2013

~ Lionel Shriver

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I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

~ Jennifer Egan

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There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

~ Anne Lamott

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She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry....

~ Virginia Alison

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Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

~ John Geddes

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The gift of writing, natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

~ Kris Rafferty

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His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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The Four Stages of Writer’s BlockW.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can’t.W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can’t. W.B. Stage I: I don’t want to write but I have to.W.B. Stage I: I don’t have time for writing … and, honestly, I don’t feel like writing.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the not. If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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