I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true…

— Truman Capote

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped…

— Susan Choi

“Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do…

— Carrie Newcomer

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but…

— James Lipton

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

— Jennifer Niven

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say,…

— Nat Hentoff

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

— Chinua Achebe

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan…

— Allison van Diepen