I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
Anthony Bourdain
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic... →
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen
Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.
Crystal Bowersox
I don't call myself a writer.
Bruce Boxleitner
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
John Boyne
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
Ann Brashares