Book Quote by Jon Stewart

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in…

— Steven Pressfield

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

— Neil Jordan

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was…

— Anne Stevenson