Sheila Heti Quotes

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

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.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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

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

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

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

I had writer's block for almost a year.

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

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

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

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.

Many artists give up after a while.

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