The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to... →
John Cheever
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Anton Chekhov
Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
Tracy Chevalier
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me... →
Thomas Haden Church
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so... →
Sandra Cisneros
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even... →
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
Cassandra Clare
I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.
Sophie Kennedy Clark