Melissa Bank Quotes

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

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.

When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

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

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Writing bores me so.

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

I had writer's block for almost a year.