"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."

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"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."

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"For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block."

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"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."

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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."

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"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."

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"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."

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