Labor Quote by Honore de Balzac

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to…

— Junot Diaz

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something…

— Marguerite Duras

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.”

— Toni Morrison

“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

— Alexandra David-Neel

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creativity flourishes in solitude.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”

— Schiller Goethe Hebel et al

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Novel writing is solitary work.

— Mohsin Hamid

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

— Albert Camus