Feelings Quote by Amy Tan

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

— Richard Powers

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and…

— Paul Kane

Writing is a lonely process.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed…

— Geoff Dyer

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think…

— Margaret Atwood

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in…

— Dan Chaon

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll