Advantage Quote by Clive Barker

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I…

— David Knopfler

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and…

— Hans Zimmer

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to…

— Tobias Wolff

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing.…

— Quentin Tarantino

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Writing a novel, when it's all going well, it's wonderful. You're lost in the world, and you have a relationship with your own mind.…

— Sarah Dunn

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

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force…

— Miranda July

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to…

— Chang-Rae Lee