Books Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

— Ian Gillan

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

— Anonymous

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write…

— Jose Saramago

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee