I love Toni Morrison's take on "writer's block:

"When I sit down in order to write, sometimes it's there; sometimes it's not. But that doesn't bother me anymore. I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now. All the frustration and nuttiness that comes from 'Oh, my God, I cannot write now' should be displaced. It's jus More...

This book changed my writing life, my whole concept of myself as a Black woman writer at work.