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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

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

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.