She had never been what I call a good writer.

It would be like someone questioning your right to call yourself a writer.

"For a long time I wouldn't call myself a writer, it was so hard to say the word," he recalled.

It is hard to call Smith a serious, literary writer in the conventional sense.

"But he'll never call himself a writer, even now," she added.

I thought, why not just call me a writer?

I think people will call him a great writer one day.

There they found what we call an original writer, who was nevertheless the image of the origins.

To call her a "minor writer" is clearly not accurate.

In other words, you don't like being called a chick-lit writer.