Books Quote by A. S. Byatt

The writer is all alone.

— V. S. Naipaul

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

— Italo Calvino

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

— Bich Minh Nguyen

“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine, shout, and…

— Alexina Benavidez

“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.”

— Brie Edison

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be…

— Mary Ruefle

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you…

— Alejandro Zambra

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

— Sam Shepard

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana