Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst

Sean's a great, great writer.
Robin Wright Penn

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
Bob Kane

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
Tim Cahill

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
Julio Cortazar

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

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
Robyn Davidson

I want to be a writer someday.
Andrea Barber

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
Kenneth Koch

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Tobias Wolff

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.
Margaret Mahy

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
Laurence Housman

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
Thomas Keneally

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
Tom T. Hall

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Dario Argento

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee