Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes
My essential identity is that of a writer.
Athol Fugard
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
Alan Furst
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
I'm not really a mass market writer.
If you're a writer, you're always working.
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
Dan Futterman
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
Neil Gaiman
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.