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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.


Tom Clancy
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
Tags: Think Just Who
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.


Sam Shepard
Tags: Think Get Out
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I don't really consider myself a writer.


George Tillman, Jr.
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I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.


Berlie Doherty
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein
Tags: Just Really Had
Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.
Alexandra Kleeman
Tags: You Me Like
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.


Lana Del Rey
Tags: Time Really Been
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Nick Harkaway
Tags: Life Much Myself
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Salman Rushdie
Tags: Morning Like Get
I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera.
Stephen Gaghan
As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.
Max Apple
Tags: Make Those Myself
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
Lykke Li
Tags: Me More Most
I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
Jerry Spinelli
Tags: Really Never Now
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.


Imre Kertesz
Tags: Think I Think Own
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
Eminem
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