Able Quote by Dirk Benedict

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

— Ruth Ozeki

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

— Stephanie Land

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— 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

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

— Ruth Wilson

Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write.…

— Greta Gerwig

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to…

— J. D. Salinger

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

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

— Julien Baker

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