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

I don't call myself a writer.

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

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

A writer is what I am.

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.