“Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.”
Barbara Kingsolver
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“Don't wait for the muse.”
Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.”
Giando Sigurani
“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot
“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.”
Anne Fadiman
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader