Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I try to write jokes but when I've written about four I run out. Writing my show is a very lonely place. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time. — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions;… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of… — Daphne Kapsali Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands. The only difference between writing and masturbation is one… — Mark Bell Copy Share Image
I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.” — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
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