Endeavor Quote by Brit Marling

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I…

— Katherine Paterson

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to…

— Markus Zusak

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world of your…

— Stewart Stafford

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination,…

— Peter Robinson

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in…

— Samantha Shannon

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at…

— Kim Brooks

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me…

— David Quammen

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