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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.
One is a writer, or one is not.
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A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
I write. Therefore I am a writer.
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer - I am merely a word criminal.
I essentially write for myself.
Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
I am an author! To read me is to know me.
Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.
Writer is a Film Director of letters.
I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
Authors can alter your life.
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
I don't really consider myself a writer.
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
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.
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
I am not a writer except when I write.
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
When you write books for a living, you come to realize that while not all people who write to authors are strange, all people who are strange write to authors.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
A writer writes what other people only think.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers ...
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
I'm an accidental writer.
I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.
I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
Life as an Author is like a roller coaster. You never know how high you will climb, or how fast you'll come down, but it is a wild ride!
Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.
Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.
Every man is an author - an author of his state.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.
A writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator ...
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.
I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
A writer is someone who has written something today
I ain't no author, man ... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
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The proper relationship of a writer to his or her own life is similar to a cook with a cupboard. What the cook takes from the cupboard is not the same thing as what is in the cupboard.
An author owes a duty to the truth.
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.
You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.
Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.
I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it.
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Every writer needs two selves - the generative self and the editor self.
Time is the author of authors.
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
'being published' is not the same as being a real writer.
People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
The most original novelist now writing in English.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
A writer is a word trapped in a person.
If you write, you're a writer.
A Writer is a Writer, no matter what he(or she) writed
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
At one point, all authors are unknown until the day they are not.
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
Every day, somewhere, a writer is born. She comes into the world with a destiny: to share her words and proclaim a message.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.