I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.
A writer is what I am.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.