“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.” PeopleWritingWellsEnoughFactsFacesDifficultTalkingAmbitionBlockMysteriousPrescriptionsHysteriaWriter's BlockWriting Well Author:Thomas Mallon
“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.” WritingSelfTaughtExpressionInsightMysterious Author:William Hughes Mearns
“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.” WayWritingFeelingsLanguageProgressPossibilityRelationMysteriousMy WayDevelopingJungle Author:William Stafford
“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.” WritingWould BeIdentityMysteriousCuriousDiariesPersonification Book:My Apprenticeship Source: My Apprenticeship
“Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.” ShouldWritingArtEndsSongDarkResultsQualityMysteriousSongwritingEnd Results Author:Martin Gore