Writer S Identity Quotes

#1. To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Dana Gioia

#2. Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer!

Sofia Espinoza Alvarez

#3. I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

E. Lockhart

#4. 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

#5. I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#6. I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#7. By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

#8. Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Emma Donoghue

#9. I'll guard her with my life, little brother," Trent said, tugging on my arm. "Now go kick this guy's ass and let's get out of here.

Jamie McGuire

#10. I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?

Yiyun Li

#11. My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Paula Spencer

#12. That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

Ayana Mathis

#14. One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#15. Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

Rayvon Owen

#16. I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.

Ziauddin Sardar

#17. As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that ... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

Kenneth Koch

#18. Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

Ogwo David Emenike

#19. John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.

Anna Beer

#20. Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Terry Pratchett

#21. People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

Joel Stein

#22. As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Charlie Pierce

#23. This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

Frederick Lenz

#24. I could see Grant thinking about this, trying to grasp the chasm between the finality in my voice and his vision of our future, and bridging the divide with a combination of hope and lies.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#25. The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.

Jay Saunders Redding

#26. Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Dan Simmons

#27. Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Slash Coleman

#28. 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

#29. Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

Etgar Keret

#30. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Charlotte Eriksson

#31. Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Ilana Mercer

#32. I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#33. As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.

Marcel Schwob

#34. Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

E.L. Doctorow

#35. I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

Charlotte Eriksson

#36. You express yourself through written words. You're a writer.

Tara Sue Me

#37. Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

Demetri Martin

#38. I don't want to kick people in the face with my music, I'm just vibing. It's a very cool vibe.

Teedra Moses

#39. My essential identity is that of a writer.

Athol Fugard

#40. Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Justin Welby