Book Quote by Terry Pratchett

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate…

— Alice Mattison

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

— Chris Jericho

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been…

— Sophie Kinsella

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

— PJ Harvey

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something…

— Padgett Powell

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or…

— Neil Gaiman

Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my…

— Rob Nixon

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith