Beverly Lewis Quotes

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

I've always been a writer.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

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 always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

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

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.