Alone Quote by Markus Zusak

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Simon Mawer

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

“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 couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of…

— Brit Marling

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

— Nick Laird

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the…

— John Irving

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be…

— Mary Ruefle

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or…

— Augusten Burroughs

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat