Adjective Quote by Gore Vidal

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

A writer is someone who has written something today

— J. A. Jance

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend'…

— Stanley Clarke

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

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

— Joseph Brodsky

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you…

— Terry Pratchett

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author…

— Orhan Pamuk

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel