The blank page gives a horizon for what you can write, because you always have this conflict between what you want to say and what you could say. And writing is this conflict. ~ Allaa Al-Aswany
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Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 4 of 6
I don’t think “writer’s block” actually exists. It’s basically insecurity — it’s your own internal critic turned up to a higher level than it’s supposed to be at that moment, because when you’re starting a work — when the page is blank, when the canvas is open — your critic has to be turned down to zero… The point is actually to get stuff on paper, just to allow yourself to kind of flow. It is only by writing that you’ll discover characters, ideas, things like this. ~ Phipipp Meyer
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 2 of 6
A blank page is also a door — it contains infinity, like a night sky with a supermoon really close to the Earth, with all the stars and the galaxies, where you can see very, very clearly… You know how that makes your heart beat faster? ~ David Mitchell
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 1 of 6
The blank page in the mind has to be filled before you have the courage to face the actual blank page. ~ Jonathon Franzen
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Hemingway
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Isaac Asimov on Rejection
Rejections don’t really hurt after you stop bleeding, and even a rejection serves to introduce the writer’s name to an editor, particularly if a rejected story is competently written. ~ Isaac Asimov
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Robert Benchley
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
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Kurt Vonnegut #3 of 3
Write to be Understood: If I broke all the rules of punctuation, had words mean whatever I wanted them to mean, and strung them together higgledly-piggledy, I would simply not be understood. So you, too, had better avoid Picasso-style or jazz-style writing if you have something worth saying and wish to be understood. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
