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Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

How can you stop writing?

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.