Always Quote by David Lowery

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could…

— Ruth Wilson

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

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

— E. L. Doctorow

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

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

...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'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey