Contempt Quote by Nadine Gordimer

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

— Dustin Lance Black

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

— Wole Soyinka

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

— James Van Praagh

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

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

— Wole Soyinka

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

— Kate DiCamillo

I don't think of myself as a writer.

— James Patterson

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take…

— Italo Calvino

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card