Away Quote by David Bowie

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material…

— Taylor Momsen

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

— Maya Angelou

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Tori Amos

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth