Writing Slump Quotes

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

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

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

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.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.

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