“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on.” — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person;… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
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… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down,… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“Do whatever you have to do, avoid whatever you need to avoid, protect yourself however you need to protect yourself in order… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I know that there will always be someone who won't get the stories, or who won't like them. You cannot please everyone,… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.” — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image