Calling Quote by David Sedaris

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself…

— Murong Xuecun

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer…

— Laurie Notaro

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

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

— David Sedaris

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith