Always Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant