Break Quote by Andy Cohen

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire…

— Rita Dove

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.

— Stephen Leigh

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television…

— Robert Klein

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later…

— Neel Mukherjee

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

— Anthony Doerr

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

— James Salter