Writing Problems Quotes

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.

Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've absolutely thrown out a lifeline and you're hoping that someone will help you with something. Either there's some bad feeling you have about the work, or sometimes it's not specific - just kind of solidarity.