"Partial list of proven ways to avoid creative blocks:Stroking one’s genitals (Thomas Wolfe),..."

“Partial list of proven ways to avoid creative blocks:

Stroking one’s genitals (Thomas Wolfe), standing on one’s head (Igor Stravinsky), taking a shower (Woody Allen), smelling a drawer of decaying apples (Friedrich Schiller), photographing “filth and decay” (William Gass)”

- —from "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" by Mason Currey.