Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Norman Mailer
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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. The idea of “writer’s block” is that you are not able to write. Instead, the problem is that you are not able to write because you lack the necessary talent. Writer’s block, then, is a false problem that only appears in the mind of the ego. The ego creates imaginary problems in order to distract us from real problems.

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