Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I've always been a writer.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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

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

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

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

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

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 think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

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

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.