Writer Classification Quotes

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.

Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.