Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

- Alice Walker

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

- Andy Rooney

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

- Andre Gide

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

- Anais Nin

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

- Amy Tan

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

- Amy Tan

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

- Amy Tan

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

- Amy Lee

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

- Amiri Baraka

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

- Alice Walker

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

- A. A. Milne

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

- Albert Camus

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

- Alanis Morissette

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

- Alanis Morissette

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

- Alan Alda

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.

- Alan Alda

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

- Alan Alda

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

- Alain de Botton

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

- Al Franken

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

- Adele