Able Quote by Howard Gordon

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 love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new…

— John Wells

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination,…

— Peter Robinson

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that…

— Stefan Merrill Block

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

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

— Elif Batuman

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I…

— Katherine Paterson

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be…

— Nicky Wire

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

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part…

— Robyn Davidson

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides