“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.” FearDarkCreativeDangerComputerStudiosBlockLockedDwellingCreative Block Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.” FeelsWritingLooksI CanSometimesRunningMovingTypeComputerSentencesScreensBlockSurprisingRecipesNotebookWriter's Block Author:Chad Harbach
“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape” WantFirstsKindDifferentNextProcessFictionShapesComputerPagesResearchNotesWhat You WantBlockFilesNon Fiction Author:Joan Didion
“Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.” WritingWould BeNextKnowingPiecesPaintingMaterialsComputerBlockSculptureNever Quit Author:Joan Didion
“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.” WantTwoFrontsComputerSittingPressesBlockMailButtonsJunkJunk Mail Book:Jellicoe Road Source: Jellicoe Road