#block

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#away #became #been #block #caused

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

#brake #great #kind #man #mask

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her. ↗

— Judy Davis

#around #bit #blocked #died #go

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #idea #often #problem #said

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#block #chopping #nothing #past #through

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain. ↗

— Venus Williams

#blocks #get #lot #pain #play

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#days #experienced #few #i #more

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films. ↗

— Pam Grier

#blockbusters #carpenter #films #i #john

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. ↗

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#also #beginning #blocks #examining #forgot