Jonathan Dee Quotes

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

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

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

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

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

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

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

... 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.

Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

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

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.