Felt Quote by Elena Tonra

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh

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

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant. As much…

— Sabrina Claudio

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to…

— Sharon Van Etten

I always felt lonely growing up at school.

— Dylan Llewellyn

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

— Ali Liebegott

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

— Walter O'Brien