Died Quote by Zadie Smith

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a…

— B. J. Novak

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that…

— David Lowery

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

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

— Bob Schieffer

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee