I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which…

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

I was originally an actor, and then I started to write. One of the most frustrating things about acting was that it was intermittent…

— Sean Mathias

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do…

— PJ Harvey

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you…

— Ella Henderson

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can…

— Robert Coover

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

— Gore Vidal

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

— Rod Serling

“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very…

— Diane Setterfield

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a…

— Roald Dahl

“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.”

— Ann Aguirre

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

— Hilary Mantel