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

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

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

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The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

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“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

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The last of the three-dot journalists.

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Unmarked graves out past Terlingua

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

G.K. Chesterton

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

T.S. Eliot

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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 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