Alone Quote by Gillian Flynn

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to…

— Alexander Kluge

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a…

— Mindy Kaling

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt