My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

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

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

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.

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

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.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.