Writers Block Quotes

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.

~ Lili St. Crow

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

~ Charles Bukowski

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

~ Erica Jong

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.

~ Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big publish button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspired mood; the plane has to bump along the runway for a while before it finally takes off.

~ Alice W. Flaherty

I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call. I gotcha girlfriend.

~ Alfa H

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

~ T.n. Suarez

On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness of soul, romance and separation, contemplation and adventure. And each one of them is constantly walking side by side in my lifetime. Always reachable by a thought.

~ Frederick Vanderbuilt

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be pat

~ Hilary Mantel

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

~ Niall Williams

A writer is a thought smith, he educates men to think for themselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am what I have ever read

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You never know what you will write until you write it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not angry

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not on fire

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana