I am Quote by Laura Moser

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people.

— Cord Jefferson

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.

— Clemantine Wamariya

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

— Kevin Kwan

...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

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to…

— Deborah Levy

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent…

— Robert Sapolsky

I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know…

— Ursula Hegi