Belittle Quote by Robert Morgan

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

— Toni Morrison

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that.…

— Jimmy Buffett

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call…

— David Sedaris

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used…

— Ronald Frame

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought…

— Walker Percy

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I…

— Justin Vernon

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew…

— Tom Barbash

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

— Robert Morgan

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place,…

— Lauren Groff