Lou Barlow Quotes

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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

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

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

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 wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

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

I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?