Character Quote by Isabel Allende

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them…

— Julie Andrews

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

— David Foster Wallace

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

— Julie Andrews

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way…

— Tom Hanks

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -…

— David Foster Wallace

“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 fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the…

— Hilma Wolitzer

There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh,…

— Alain de Botton

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

— Josh Radnor

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

— Gail Honeyman

It is so important to share experiences with one another. Humans are so often in their own heads and not looking to others. But…

— Clemantine Wamariya

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known…

— William S. Burroughs