Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

~ Rob Bignell

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There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

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Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

~ Kelly Moran

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The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

~ D.a. Botta

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I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

~ D.a. Botta

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In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.Page 68

~ Steven Pressfield

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Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

~ Albert Sánchez Piñol

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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing.Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

~ David Lindsay-Abaire

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I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block? No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.

~ Larry Kahaner

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To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

~ Dave Horowitz

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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

~ Candace Bushnell

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Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

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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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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

~ Philip Sidney

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Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

~ Gina Mcknight

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Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

~ Rob Bignell

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You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.

~ Sam Shepard

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Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

~ H. Raven Rose

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Professional writers don't have muses, they have mortgages.

~ Larry Kahaner

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Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

~ David Batterson

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