Pat Summitt Quotes

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

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

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

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

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

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

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

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

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.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

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

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

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

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.