Character Quote by Hilma Wolitzer

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

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

Novel writing is solitary work.

— Mohsin Hamid

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Ruth Ozeki

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But…

— Denis Johnson

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

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