Allowed Quote by Peter Mayle

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

— Andy Rooney

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then…

— Gore Vidal

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

— Andy Rooney

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you…

— Eve Bunting

“A writer never retires; a writer never resigns.”

— Archana Kapoor Nagpal

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is…

— Jim Crace

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

— John Ashbery

That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a funny thing…

— Martin Amis