Double life Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.…

— Donald Harington

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

— Paul Auster

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a…

— Alex Haley

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for…

— John Hersey

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and…

— Paul Kane

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer