People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.
Roman PayneTag: writing inspiration creativity travel ideas paris france expatriate expats asia writer-s-block burma opium expatriot opiate saffron poppies opiates parisians
If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.
Tag: accomplishment depression idleness terror writer-s-block self-sabotage
Art is not in some far-off place.
Lydia DavisTag: art creativity writer-s-block
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
Thomas BernhardTag: writing writers-block writer-s-block
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.
Julie Ann DawsonTag: writing authors writer-s-block
I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.
Jennifer EganTag: write writer writer-s-block
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Stephen KingTag: writing creativity extinction writer-s-block writing-process
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
François MauriacTag: writing writers writers-on-writing writer-s-block writer-quotes
Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.
Chriscinthia BlountTag: inspirational writers inspirational-quotes spirituality writer-s-block divine-truth quotes-to-live-by quotes-about-writing
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
Aldous HuxleyTag: writing writer-s-block
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