You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

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You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

August 5, 2019July 21, 2023 537

I found this in the August 2nd, 2019, New York Times. Fun reading…if you’re not suffering from reader’s block:

Reader’s block article

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.