I Am A Writer Quotes

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
- Brian Aldiss

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
- Peter Bichsel

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
- Maeve Binchy

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
- Gwendolyn Brooks

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
- Pearl S Buck

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
- Robert Frost

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.
- Raymond Chandler

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
- Joan Didion

I am a writer, not a transcriber.
- Ivan Doig

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,
- Natasha Duncan Drake

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
- James Ellroy

When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them? And italics. How do you make italics happen?
- Neil Gaiman

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
- Edward Gorey

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
- Anthony Minghella

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
- L Ron Hubbard

I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.
- Helen Humphreys

I am a writer of fragments.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.
- Gerard De Marigny

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
- Flannery Oconnor

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
- Eudora Welty

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
- H Raven Rose

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.
- Jeanette Winterson

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
- Jeanette Winterson

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.
- Ey Wade

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
- Kerry Washington

I have spent my life 'dreaming' of becoming a writer. I co-wrote 2 books & I write articles for a magazine. Guess what?? I am a writer...dream accomplished! Everything after that is just business!!
- C K Webb

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
- George Woodcock