Capacity Quote by John Irving

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

— Simon Mawer

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

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

— Paul Auster

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

“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

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to…

— J. D. Salinger

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird