A Quote by Derek Walcott

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

Derek Walcott

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Absolutely Am Caribbean Primarily Writer

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Derek Walcott
Poet
January 23, 1930 - March 17, 2017

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.

Derek Walcott

If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

Lee Strobel

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.

Damian Barr

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

Cynthia Ozick

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

Hugh Hefner

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Gore Vidal

I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

Garth Greenwell

Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that's what India brought to the Caribbean.

Liz Mitchell

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

Martin Chalfie

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.