You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

05 Aug, 2019

I found this in the August 2nd, 2019, New York Times. Fun reading...if you're not suffering from reader's block: Reader's block article

You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

August 5, 2019May 9, 2025

I found this in the August 2nd, 2019, New York Times. Fun reading…if you’re not suffering from reader’s block: Read More...

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.