I don't think of myself as a writer.
James Patterson
MyselfThinkWriter
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
Donald Ray Pollock
YouMeetGuyGoingWriterLeast
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
bell hooks
ParentsWriter
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Anatoly Rybakov
HeartMemoryPeopleOwnToolWriter
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
MyselfThinkWriteLikeWriterHe
I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.
Deborah Harkness
WriterDefinitely
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
Walter Hill
WantMoviesWriteDirectorWriter
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.
John Logan
BrokenHappyPeopleMeJustWriter
Where I came from, no one was a writer.
Howard Gordon
WhereWriterI CameCame
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
Chris Abani
WorkWritingLivingWillHimWriter
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden
ProudFameHimWriterVainSeldom
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Matt Haig
BeautyTruthWriterReadBlockCure
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
LoveThemeHoldWhoWriterHimself
By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
Chris Rock
TimeComedyWriterWanted
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
DeadWriterHeHostilityGenerate
Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
Jeff Giles
GoodNervousBeingBecauseWriter
I was not a successful TV comedy writer.
Graham Moore
ComedySuccessfulWriterTV
Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.
Cillian Murphy
WriterTalented
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin
LifeAchievementWomanAwardsWriter
I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.
Michael Finkel
I AmMeLikeWriterThirdArm
I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.
George Pelecanos
PeopleFeelLikeWriterHeGoes
Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.
Bobbie Ann Mason
MemoryPowerfulWriterThing
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo
MenPossibilitiesWriterStoriesHe
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
Amy Lee
GoodIdeasEnoughOutJustWriter
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