Apologetic Quote by Patti Smith

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

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 didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I…

— Rob Chapman

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

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and…

— Tim Cahill

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was…

— James Frey

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

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

— Bob Schieffer

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch…

— David Rakoff

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic…

— Hari Kunzru