All alone Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I'm sure that I will always be a writer. It…

— J K Rowling

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

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury

“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion…

— Boria Sax

“I was driven to go into book writing by the very nature of journalism and blogging. Both are ephemeral. Journalists and bloggers can have…

— Barista Uno

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

— James Salter

What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter…

— Denise Duhamel

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of…

— Michael Scott

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out…

— Tomi Adeyemi