About Quote by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

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

— Pankaj Kapur

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found…

— Harriet Martineau

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

— E. L. Doctorow

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros