Writer Identity Quotes

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

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."

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?