Richard Greenberg Quotes

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

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

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

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.

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

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

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

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

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

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.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

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

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.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.