Lonely Quote by Heather McHugh

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

— Catherine Gaskin

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely.…

— Elena Tonra

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

— Frank Ocean

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

— Sandra Cisneros

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

— Richard Powers

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write,…

— Alan Bennett

I started writing things because I don't have anyone to share with or it's hard for me to speak, But the best part people…

— Nishan Panwar

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

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ruth Wilson