Detached Quote by Brad Listi

I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over…

— Anna Todd

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Ruth Ozeki

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

— John le Carre