Maria Konnikova Quotes

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

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

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

I don't believe in writer's block.

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.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

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

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

I've never had writer's block.

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.

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

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.

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.