Amazon Quote by Miranda July

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

— Paul Auster

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

— Miguel Syjuco

All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

— Vaclav Smil

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to…

— Markus Zusak

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together…

— George Pelecanos

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

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

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more…

— Leigh Whannell

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

— Nick Laird

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber