Myself Quote by Katie Piper

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up…

— Damian Barr

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— E. L. Doctorow

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I did not…

— Needa Muy

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer