Cassandra Clare Quotes

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.

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.'

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.

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

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

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

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

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

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

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.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

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.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

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.