Banner Quote by Harold Pinter

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that…

— David Lowery

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity…

— Cass McCombs

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

— Mike Cernovich

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish…

— J. K. Rowling

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

— Emma Stone

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more…

— Margot Livesey