Anything Quote by Ali Smith

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

— David Milch

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter…

— Jo Nesbo

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even…

— Mavis Gallant

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

— Anne Enright

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.…

— Renata Adler

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

— Sophie Dahl

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

— Andrew Vachss

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner