James Bernard Frost Quotes

It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I've always been a writer.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.