Craft Quote by John Searles

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side…

— Craig Bierko

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

— Sharon Van Etten

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work…

— Woody Allen

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how…

— Joe Frank

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

— John Searles

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut