Disappear Quote by Nadine Gordimer

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something…

— Marguerite Duras

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination,…

— Peter Robinson

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

— Franz Kafka

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion…

— John Braine

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

— Dacia Maraini

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

— David Mitchell