About Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

— David Foster Wallace

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

A writer is someone who has written something today

— J. A. Jance

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with…

— William Golding

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

— Gore Vidal

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe