Dean Koontz Quotes

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

I don't believe in writer's block.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.