Piers Anthony Quotes

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

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

I don't believe in writer's block.

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

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

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

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

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

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

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

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

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!

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

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.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

I've never had writer's block.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.