Who said "I'm a writer first, and everything else is second."?

This quote is attributed to William Faulkner.

I'm a writer first, and everything else is second. - William Faulkner

"I'm a writer first, and everything else is second."

William Faulkner Work

Novelist American 1897–1962

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

"I decline to accept the end of man."

"Between grief and nothing I will take grief."

"You don't love because: you love despite."

"Hard work never killed anybody."

"Work with purpose and integrity."

"Hard work pays off in the end."

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."