A. E. van Vogt Quotes

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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

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

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it's black and white. When there's a song there's a song, when there's not there's not.

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

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

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

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

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

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

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.

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

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

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

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

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.