David Byrne Quotes

I don't believe in writer's block.

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

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'm not really worried about writer's block.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

I write constantly about everything.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.