Patrick Marber 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.

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

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 suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

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

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.

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.