Stop Writing Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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You fail only if you stop writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
— Laura Miller
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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 writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop…
— Ruth Rendell
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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 abandoned them. It…
— Margaret Atwood
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is…
— Bel Kaufman
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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 world.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well…
— Alice Hoffman
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My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until…
— Gabriel Fielding
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
— C.S. Lewis
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I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing…
— Matt Fraction
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I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to…
— Anne Bernays
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear…
— Tate Taylor
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One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
— Henning Mankell
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How can you stop writing?
— Tony Hillerman
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you…
— Hilary Mantel
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
— Will Rogers
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Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating…
— Patti Stanger
Who Wrote These Stop Writing Quotes
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