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Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
You know the block was ill as a youngster
Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster
You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."
Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome.
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it's an enormous block, isn't it?
A conversational roadblock.
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.
There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.
Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
An effective breakout block is at least three-hours long and spent on things other than work. It is time scheduled away from your business during normal business hours that you will use to refresh and reinvigorate your mind, so that when you return to work, you can engage with more focus and energy.
Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods
even extended ones
of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
Cockblockers are everywhere tonight, thwarting my attempts at poor decision making.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack".
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.
What had he said about machines?"
Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.
I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media.
Magnus had been around the block before blocks were invented.
How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.
As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
There is no vaccination against creative blocks. And nowhere else are they as devastating as in fashion which, unlike art or literature, dies the moment it is born.
There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Roadblocks are only temporary hurdles, if you know how to punch out a car...
I don't experience writer's block, I only have periods of severe writer's diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from "the shit" later on.
I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.
One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?-Massie Block
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.
With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.
If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion.
Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.
Biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.
I'm very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don't block. We basically like have to position the actors' bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously.
I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.
I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.
I only get writer's block about once a day.
Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say.
I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.
bloc, effectively guaranteeing that
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
Whoever had designed the block of flats had obviously worked to a clear set of priorities. Unfortunately, while cost, size, and low-maintenance had made it to the top of the list, aesthetics, good escape routes, and shelter from gunfire hadn't.
To get over artist's block, make shitty art.
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.
Why did you write "Charlie Brown is a blockhead" on the sidewalk?"
"Because I sincerely believe you are a blockhead! I have to write what I believe is true... It's my moral respolsibility!"
"Deep down I admire her integrity...
Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.
Life is going to throw you some blocks. You will decide if they are going to be your stumbling blocks or your building blocks
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Not because he was a decent block, mind you. He was an arse. But he was a shirt arse, like meself. (Napoleon)
I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.
There are no roadblocks, only springboards.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.
How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
Writer's block doesn't exist ... lack of imagination does.
Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.
I don't get writer's block because I don't believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.
I didn't even get to the end of the block before I had to stop. As I clutched my knees and wheezed, I caught my reflection in a car window. My face was a violent shade of Call the Ambulance red. My chest heaved like a monstrous jelly.
We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
The Four Stages of Writer's Block
W.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage I: I don't want to write but I have to.
W.B. Stage I: I don't have time for writing ... and, honestly, I don't feel like writing.
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.
Prescription for writer's block: fear of poverty.
When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.
It's who I am. I can't just pretend to be some normal kid. That won't work either. They'll never leave me alone. But here's what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be.
How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ...