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I think with every writer there are two people there.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.