Top 100 I Am A Writer Quotes
#1. I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
Doreen Cronin
#2. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.
Wesley D. Gray
#3. I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones ... to the depth of my very soul. I am a writer.
Valjeanne Jeffers
#4. It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
Jamaica Kincaid
#5. I am a writer, not a transcriber.
Ivan Doig
#6. But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me
precisely.
Sydney Jane Baily
#7. I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
Mark Haddon
#9. I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
Joan Didion
#10. I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.
Kate Zambreno
#11. I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
Brian Aldiss
#12. I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
Andrea Hirata
#13. I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
Jerry Spinelli
#14. I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."
Michael Scott
#16. I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
Anthony Minghella
#18. I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado
#19. It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.
Tom Wolfe
#20. I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
James Ellroy
#21. At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
Lauren Weisberger
#23. Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Orson Welles
#24. There is a reason why I am a writer ... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!
Phil Wohl
#25. Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.
Bonnie Friedman
#28. I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
#29. I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
Brandon Sanderson
#30. I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Eduardo Galeano
#31. I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P.J. Harvey
#32. I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
Aleksandar Hemon
#33. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
Robert Frost
#34. For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#35. I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Salman Rushdie
#36. I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
Charles Bukowski
#37. In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck
#38. I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.
Lee Gutkind
#40. Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime
Gillian Flynn
#41. Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M.J. Rose
#42. I am a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
J.K. Rowling
#43. Some encounter me in person, know I am a writer, and don't trust the value of my words. Some encounter my books, know me later, and don't trust the value of my friendship. Both doubt themselves.
Robin Sacredfire
#44. It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.
Jeanette Winterson
#45. I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.
Helen Humphreys
#46. When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them? And italics. How do you make italics happen?
Neil Gaiman
#48. I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
Brian McKnight
#49. I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.
Gerard De Marigny
#51. I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#52. I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist ... I am a person who does those things.
Edward Gorey
#53. Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
George Woodcock
#54. The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
Isabel Allende
#55. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Nora Ephron
#56. I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.
Arzum Uzun
#57. I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.
Quentin Tarantino
#59. If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
#60. I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
Peter Bichsel
#61. I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci
#64. I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book. So relax, read it, and if you don't enjoy it, remember that you're saving money.
George Burns
#65. There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else.
Derek Haines
#66. I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
#68. As I said, Princess, I am a writer, and as all know, that is another name for a fool.
Tad Williams
#69. I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice Walker
#70. I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy
#71. And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones ...
Colin Meloy
#72. A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!!
Anamika Mishra
#73. I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.
Dylan Moran
#74. I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
H. Raven Rose
#75. Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Ben Elton
#76. I am a writer ... a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.
Ey Wade
#77. I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that's something that I do almost everyday. So it wasnt I guess public,but I still would put out stuff on like MySpace or you know whatever social networks were poppin' at the time.
Jhene Aiko
#78. I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap.
Gillian Flynn
#79. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#80. When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.
Sophie Hannah
#81. I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.
Isabel Gillies
#82. I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
John Piper
#83. I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure I am going to stink from now on, and it might just as well be in Harpers as anywhere else, I suppose. A writer is like a beanplant-he has his day and then he gets stringy.
E.B. White
#84. Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
Olga Broumas
#85. The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.
Pankaj Mishra
#87. When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#88. I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.
Kevin Spacey
#89. How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
Cass Elliot
#90. Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.
Wallace Stegner
#92. The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write.
Albert Camus
#93. I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
Paulo Coelho
#94. As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.
Philip Levine
#95. I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
Flannery O'Connor
#96. I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
Manju Kapur
#97. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Roald Dahl
#98. Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Gore Vidal
#99. A writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.
Storm Jameson
#100. I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.
Rick Moody
