Ability Quote by Kameron Hurley

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

— Martin Cruz Smith

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng