Big families Quote by Michael Chabon

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I…

— Katherine Paterson

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with…

— Charles Bukowski

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living alone, working…

— Patricia Duncker

“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

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

— Steven Berkoff

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

— Maggie Nelson

“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

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

— Julie Andrews