Book Quote by Justin Halpern

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Ruth Ozeki

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

— Neil Jordan

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

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 an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

— Guy Kawasaki

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman