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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


#writers-block #writing #writist #writers-block

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


#writers-block #writers-block

Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid of her finiteness after all, but rather Infinity and how it called her to begin somewhere, anywhere. To begin might be an acceptance that indeed she was some kind of creator, with tremendous powers. It might mean taking people’s lives into her hands–her own life, her friends’, even her father’s or mother’s. And maybe she was afraid they would think she had animated a wandering Frankenstein no one wanted to hold.


L.L. Barkat


#mary-shelley #writer-s-block #writing #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.


L.L. Barkat


#novel-writing #writers #writers-block #writing #writers-block

A writer is always writing for someone.


L.L. Barkat


#writing #writers-block

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.


L.L. Barkat


#novel-writing #writers #writers-block #writing #writers-block

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.


Floyd Abrams


#case #got #government #how #i

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.


Karen Allen


#as far as #blockbusters #far #films #independent

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.


Jennifer Aniston


#buy #changed #follows #know #life

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.


Thomas Carlyle


#block #granite #obstacle #pathway #stepping-stone






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