Who you are Quote by Richard Flanagan

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

— John Banville

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

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

— Patricia Clarkson

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for…

— Faith Sullivan

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

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

— Wole Soyinka