Abi Morgan Quotes

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

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

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.

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

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

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 don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

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

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

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

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.