I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
Hugh Leonard
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
Jill Lepore
If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
Doris Lessing
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has... →
Jonathan Lethem
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television... →
Barry Levinson
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could... →
Sonia Levitin
I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
Ariel Levy
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform... →
Mark Leyner
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg