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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

— Frederik Pohl

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm happy to work until I'm 70 if I'm able to. Actually, I'm happy to keep writing as long as people keep buying my books.

— Nick Earls

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

— Mary Balogh

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

— Anne Tyler

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

— Art Linkletter

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

— Kate DiCamillo

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

— Tanya Tucker

✗Opposing Perspectives

At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.

— David H. Murdock

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

— Ken Thompson