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"I'm sorry, Walter, but I need room to write."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

"I've read all your books and seen all your plays, and I wear your 'Gimme' cap."

"It all happened so fast. 'Notable Book of the Year' to the remainder shelves to HERE in just six months!"

Meet the author

'To you it's wine, to me, it's my writer's block vaccine.'

The novel was printed and in the stores ... any minute now, the world would beat down his door.

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Freedom

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

'The first thing we will do is select a block captain.'

'After three years of writer's block, I began writing about writer's block.'

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

So you've lost your journalism job. Yep and my freelance contracts. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Free distribution of information is driving publishers out of business. I can't compete against thousands of free blogs. Twenty years I spent learning to be a professional journalist and I'm a dinosaur. What'd you say? I was reading Gawker. Shoot me.

Skywriter's Block

"We're still pretty far apart. I'm looking for a six-figure advance and they're refusing to read the manuscript."

'Ed' 'Op-ed'

'This week's column is going to be about Writer's Block, and it's...'

"You're a writer? But what do you do for money?"

The Cartoonist's armoury

What's that, Lance? It's called a newspaper. It's like a Kindle, but instead of your fingers leaving smudges, they get smudged.

Steadman - The Early Years.

'It's not enough that you want to publish it, you must beg for it.'

"She's always writing in that journal of hers. Maybe she'll be a notary public when she grows up."

'Are you sure this is the only way to get rid of your writers block?'

Office Gossip: Your Business (In) and My Business (Out).

Tomb of the unpublished author.

'I have a case of...oh, heck. What's that called?'

'Dang! Heck of a time to get writer's block.'

Publisher

Content writers.

"Don't write it!"

'I can't keep a secret, either!'