Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

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

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

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

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.

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

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

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

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

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.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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

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

I had writer's block for almost a year.

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

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.