Lou Gramm Quotes

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

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.

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

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

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

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.

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

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

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

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Many artists give up after a while.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

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

I had writer's block for almost a year.

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.