#block

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #blocked #freedom #i #information

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#began #being #block #cycle #end

On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given Puffing 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 death That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath And 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 seas If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reciprocity #writer-s-block #death

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#artists #beat #because #block #creative

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me! ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#alice #block #brain #crazy #creative

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#certainty #condition #his #man #meaning

A book that is shut is but a block. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#book #shut

I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

#became #blockbuster #california #called #get

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. ↗

— Mary Garden

#block #had #i #lasted #life

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. ↗

— Mary Garden

#block #excuse #had #i #illness