Felt Quote by Jeanette Winterson

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

— John le Carre

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side…

— Craig Bierko

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman