Cities Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great…

— Jodi Picoult

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

— William Faulkner

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

— Anne Enright

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy