It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and…

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone…

— Chris Terrio

“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.”

— William Saroyan

“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.”

— Ken Scott

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the…

— Sadie Jones

“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in…

— Jyoti Arora

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where…

— Jameela Jamil

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there…

— Susanne Bier

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

— Martin O'Malley

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a…

— Edith Head