Advantage Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

— Steven Berkoff

“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always been too…

— Anonymous

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

— Richard Powers

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

— Elif Safak

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

— Paulo Coelho

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