Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a…

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the…

— Hilma Wolitzer

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

Writing is a solitary occupation.

— Bernard Cornwell

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

— Julianne MacLean

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or…

— Neil Gaiman

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never…

— Tom Robbins

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys…

— Charles Baudelaire

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research…

— Caroline Kennedy

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

— William P. Perry

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests…

— Joaquin Miller

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

— Frank Moore Colby

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know…

— Philip Pullman

It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely…

— Frederick Lenz

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

— Richard E. Grant