Tawni O'Dell Quotes

I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

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'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

Every time we put out a piece of art, it continues to define who we are. What could possibly be more important than that and require more of your focus and your time and your energy.

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me about the house all day 'wearing a dressing gown, brewing tea and stumped for words'.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

You are what your record says you are.