I realized Quote by Alexander Chee

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

— Jonathan Kellerman

My essential identity is that of a writer.

— Athol Fugard

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

— Padgett Powell

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

— Patrick O'Brian

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private…

— Umberto Eco

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as…

— Susan Shreve

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

— Don DeLillo

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

— Mike Cernovich

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

— Jane Fonda

The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I…

— Emma Watson