Businessman Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

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

— Mike Cernovich

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

— Kim Edwards

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird