#block

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#writers-on-writing

Art is not in some far-off place. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#creativity #writer-s-block #art

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

— Charles Bukowski

#writing #writers-block

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

— Philip Sidney

#writers-block #writers-on-writing #writing-advice #inspirational

He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country. "But I did see a show of Hopper once. And I like his light. It was kind of lonely or something. Or, "The world's a mess, it's in my kiss,' like John and Exene say," he mumbled. We were in a leather store on Market Street being punks on acid with skunk-striped hair and steel-toed boots. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#francesca-lia-block #thorn #men

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#creates #establishes #itself #man #offers

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#been #breaking #come #disadvantage #distance

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#block #cannot #conflict #cyprus #decisions

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. ↗

— Dan Rather

#block #provided #put #traffic #up

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?' ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#being #blocked #crying #even #ever