Editors Quote by C. S. Forester

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

I don't think of myself as a writer.

— James Patterson

I never thought of myself as a writer.

— David E. Kelley

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to…

— Lynne Tillman

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

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

— David Milch

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me…

— Curtis Mayfield

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

— Zoe Kazan