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Via bodlon, here's William Gibson on writer's block:

"... writer's block is my default setting. Its opposite is miraculous. The process of learning to write fiction, for me, was one of learning to almost continually be doing it through the block, in spite of the block, the block becoming the accustomed place from which to work. Our traditional cultural models of creativity tend to involve the wrong sort of heroism, for me. 'It sprang whole and perfect from my brow' as opposed to 'I saw it mispelled, in mauve Krylon, on the side of a dumpster, and it haunted me'."