I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his…

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me…

— Colson Whitehead

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

— Daniel Alarcon

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

— Al Pacino

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich

As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women -…

— Jillian Medoff

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial…

— Vincent Bugliosi

I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I…

— David Lloyd

First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens -…

— Jack Driscoll

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

— Jeanette Winterson

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they…

— David Letterman

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

— William Gibson