"It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?"

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Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

— Stanley Kunitz