Depressing Quote by Gillian Robespierre

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

— Paul Auster

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

— Simon Mawer

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

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

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be…

— Mary Ruefle

“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

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

— Richard Condon

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of…

— Brit Marling

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

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Ruth Ozeki