"Writers Block"
The Top 10 Writers Block Quotes
1. Writer’s block? I’ve heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn’t a writer anymore. I’m sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ~Warren Ellis
2. I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done. ~Barbara Kingsolver
3. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? ~Philip Pullman
4. I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as writer’s block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I’m working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it’s usually because I’m trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place. ~Jeffery Deaver
5. You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. ~John Rogers
6. There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. ~Terry Pratchett
7. I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen. ~Jennifer Egan
8.Writer’s block doesn’t exist…lack of imagination does. ~Cyrese Covelli
9. Writer’s Block is just an excuse by people who don’t write for not writing. ~Giando Sigurani
10. 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
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Funny how I was pondering on my sudden awareness that lately, I haven't been visited by ideas for a story when I came across this post in tumblr by Hitomi just a few minutes after. And boy did those quotes hit me hard!
For a person who has constantly complained about "writer's block", this is more than a mere slap. It's a punch against my very state of living and outlook of how my relationship with words has come about. It has been a very cold and bad break up, indeed.
Now, I would attest that despite my lack of drive for writing, I have never ran out of ideas for a story in the past. I'm just really too lazy to write or my own shortcomings in technical skill frustrates me good enough to make me stop and make me feel inadequate as a person, or well, as an aspiring writer.
However, do I? Do I really want to write? YES I DO. I'm not practicing writing to be a professional, though. I think I'm not destined to be a great person in that light. I believe I'm destined to be happy though, and I believe that being able to write again, even for personal pleasure, will be part of that happiness; should be part of that happiness.
Yet, I can't even find the images for a story recently.
What has happened to me? I used to have ideas, more crazy than rational ones, but I basked in their abundance!
Oh, I feel sad. /sigh
Nonetheless, I will try my very, very, very best to write everyday.
I know, I know, I had claimed these very words in the past and had broken it repeatedly, but I will really try and do it until I realize that I am happy because writing is part of my happiness again.