Barriers Quote by John Braine

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

— Dacia Maraini

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

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

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

Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there…

— Bonnie Baker

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

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate.…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon