Friendship Quote by Richard Powers

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

— Steven Berkoff

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a…

— Amy Tan

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is a lonely process.

— Rajkumar Hirani

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the…

— Kathleen Norris

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed…

— Geoff Dyer

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels…

— Douglas Coupland