As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it... →
Will Self
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
I never intended to become a writer.
Richard Selzer
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
Maria Semple
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling
I am not a consecutive writer.
Dr. Seuss