Annoying Quote by Damian Barr

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never…

— Erin Maya Darke

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people,…

— Ben Howard

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of…

— Paula Poundstone

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

— Jorja Smith

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but…

— Rob Corddry

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

— E. L. Doctorow

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and…

— Zal Batmanglij

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem