Business Quote by Barbara Abercrombie

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

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

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

— Hilma Wolitzer

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

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

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

Writing is a lonely business.

— Sherman Alexie

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But…

— Denis Johnson

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

— Sandra Cisneros

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