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It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. ↗

— Seeley James

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What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted. "Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable..." "What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh. "Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity." "A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously. ↗

— P.D. James

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Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking at you on that bright white screen, realizing that you now have to come up with three or ten or twenty pages of text all on your own - it's enough to give anyone a major case of writer's block! ↗

— Stefanie Weisman

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I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

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The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a kind of cultural bipolar disorder, one that too many of us have. The scientist asks how I can call my writing vocation and not addiction. I no longer see why I should have to make that distinction. I am addicted to breathing in the same way. I write because when I don’t, it is suffocating. I write because something much larger than myself comes into me that suffuses the page, the world, with meaning. Although I constantly fear that what I am writing teeters at the edge of being false, this force that drives me cannot be anything but real, or nothing will ever be real for me again. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

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Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. ↗

— Giando Sigurani

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Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve. ↗

— N.D. Wilson

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The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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قفلة الكاتب أو The writer block تلك الحالة التي يفقد فيها الكاتب قدرته علي الكتابة والرغبة فيها . يغدو الوجود لديها بلا معني . ويكون ضعيفا أضعف ما يكون .ويصير انزواؤه فيما يشبه الصندوق المحكم نوعا من الكُمُون الواقي . يتحاشي مواجهة العالم بمثل هذه الدرجة المبرحه من الضعف ويأمل أن تعود روحه إلي انتفاضها في مثل هذه السكينة والهدأة . ↗

— محمد المخزنجي

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