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“My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.”

“... 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.”

Thinking Given Waiting Block Phenomenon Impatience Arthur Writer's Block Credence

Author:Alan Garner

“I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Moments Seems Happens Waiting Process Voice Trouble Havens Filled Be Good Block Dislike Writer's Block Flailing Good Moments

Author:Jennifer Egan

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

Writing Block Writer's Block

Author:Charles Bukowski

“When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One”

Stars Sun Like You Shadow Block Collide

Author:Elton John

“And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.”

Way Writing Seems Together Artist Method Significant Block Explanation Fancy Explaining

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“I've never had writer's block.”

Block Writer's Block

Author:David Byrne

“We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.”

Sometimes Felt Behinds Arms Harmony Legs Block Extensions Arms And Legs

Book:Enclave

Source: Enclave

“Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.”

Ifs World Want I Can Sometimes Helping Seems Alive Pages Lonely Block Friendly Bad Things Writer's Block

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted.”

Way Giving Years Said Whole Wanted Voice Behinds Fronts Walking Males Familiar Block My Way Bother Tone Disturbing Nemesis Whole Year

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and there's hardly anyone else about. I slow right down. "What shall I do?" "Reverse," Zoey says. "They're not going to move." I wind down the window. "Oi!" I yell "Move your arses!" They turn languid, shift lazily to the edge of the road and grin as I blow kisses at them. Zoey looks stunned, "What's got into you?" "Nothing- I just haven't learned reversing yet.”

Looks Moving Turns Boys Sky Havens Strange Wind Kissing Window Edges Blow Block Colour Cigarette Reverse Bike Gang Hood Stunned Arses

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.”

“Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Enough Lying Asks Nice Goes On Fairs Block Exhausting

Author:Rachel Cohn

“The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, "I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that." "I'm not trying to be sweet," Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. "I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that.”

Thinking Trying Said Voice Doors Heard Sweet Brother Office Fairs Moved Block Secretary Your Brother Very Sweet

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.”

“We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.”

Knows Stills Moments Might Happens Left Stars Memories Gone Planets Baby Okay Block Cells Something New That Moment Dna Somewhere Else Here And Now Our Memories Cockroaches Sunflower

Author:Libba Bray

“Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.”

World Voice Secret Wonderful Magic Loneliness Building Pages Block Glorious Companion Speakers Keepers Building Blocks Comforter Wonderful World

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?”

Knows World Half Block Jersey

Book:Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel

Source: Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel

“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.”

Want Two Fronts Computer Sitting Presses Block Mail Buttons Junk Junk Mail

Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”

Spirit Confidence Screens Christian Inspirational Block

Book:A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke

Source: A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke

“The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.”

Knows Made Happens Christian Past Purpose Choices Universe Happened Chaos Block Free Will Variables Past Present Past Present And Future Coexist Anything Can Happen

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.”

Made Home Can Do Fate One Day Block Seats Apartment Handy Sofas

Book:Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

Source: Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

“Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Children Said Night House Parent Sound Rooms Worry Doors Car Stupid Bed Rain Argument Lays Block Rip Yelling Hinges Worrying About Money

Book:Boy Toy

Source: Boy Toy

“We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you’re looking through. ’Cause from where I’ve been standing, we’ve been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again.” – Sasha”

Want Mind I Can Two Lasts Fighting Causes Ability Standing Defeat Glasses Ass Block Hello Stairs Two Days Screwed Up Coyotes

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.”

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

Lying Night Turns Brain Rate Wave Block Awake Sand Imitation Mud Pebbles Rubies Awake At Night

Book:THE HORSE'S MOUTH

Source: THE HORSE'S MOUTH

“Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!”

Firsts Song Towns Tired Foolish Block Demon Pox Demon Pox

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".”

Thinking Mind Seems Speak Waiting Process Term Please Projects Stones Block Statues Knitting Yarn Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.”

Children Said Action Black Existence Rich Color Ready Baby Clothes Logic Skins Convinced Coffee Block Muscles Touched Tall Badass Deities Sprung

Author:Ilona Andrews

“I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.”

People Looks Mean Whole Facts Conditions Stage Goes On Conflict Conscious Essence Obvious Chosen Block Sane Neurotic Neurosis

Author:Doris Lessing

“Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.”

Block Questioning

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.”

Littles Black Water Rocks Spring Breathe Block Ice Sand Yards Remembrance Funny Things Mist Blossoming Chopping Bogs

Author:Tove Jansson

“Phury stepped up in front of her, blocking the view as leaned down and put his mouth right to Throe's ear. As he squeezed Throe's biceps until it screamed in pain, the Brother growled softly, "You get hard and I'll castrate you as soon as she leaves." Well .. If that wasn't crystal clear.”

Ifs Wells Hard Pain Views Clear Fronts Brother Mouths Ears Down And Block Crystals Biceps

Author:J.R. Ward

“Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.”

“The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.”

World Fall Names Paper Letters Weight Shoulders Block Pens Centre Wire Oaks Baskets Hatchet Weight Of The World

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”

World Mind Found One Thing Healthy Block Healthy Mind

Book:Heart-Shaped Box

Source: Heart-Shaped Box

“The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.”

Whole Body Block Interfere Breaking Down Compounds Protein Vitamins Minerals Absorption Staples Soy Soybeans Vitamins And Minerals

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.”

People Ifs World Self Today One Thing Sorry Pity Block Our World World Today Insulting Self Pity Stumbling Stumbling Blocks Being Sorry

Author:Agatha Christie

“I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.”

Writing Block Educate Writer's Block

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.”

Heart Stills Feelings Too Much Skills Survival Proof Block Survival Skills

Book:Shadow Bound

Source: Shadow Bound

“It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.”

Knows Way I Can Kindness Know How Blow Block Poison Knives Dozen Wire Dodge Impervious

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

Source: The Works of Goethe

“He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated the greatest Greek general who had ever lived. Kyrian of Thrace.” Real hatred gleamed in his eyes, but she wasn’t sure who it was meant for. His grandfather or Kyrian. “You mean Kyrian Hunter?” she asked. “The guy with the minivan who lives a few blocks over?” Valerius’s eyes sparked at that. “He’s driving a minivan?” There was no mistaking the humor in his tone.”

People Mean Real Eye Guy Beats Hatred Threat Driving Block Destroyed Greek Tone His Eyes Rome Grandfather Hunters Minivans

Book:Night Play

Source: Night Play

“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”

Trying Children Said Names Block Spells Alphabet Kindergarten

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?” I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.” Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for his—” “Gretchen!” my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. “He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.”

“Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.”

Trying Policy Access Block Parenthood Standpoint Contraception Planned Parenthood Nonsensical

Author:Richard Carmona

“Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Important Done Today Individual Important Things Impact Bunch Block Collectives Improving Trash Tuesday Writer's Block Push Ups Trash Cans Always Improving

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.”

Thinking Knows Men Enough Ready Drama Men And Women Adults Boring Block Teenager Excitement Without You Sleeves God Life Grown Man

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau”

Should Wells Might Blood Block Cake

Author:Karl Pilkington

“Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.”

Ifs Knows World Want Feels Years Wells Stills I Can Reason Enough Used Steps Right Now Hot Block Bored Fifty Bus Riding Mama Crowded Had Enough Noisy

Author:Marsha Norman

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