Partner Quote by Robert Ben Garant

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

— Chris Pavone

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is a lonely business.

— Sherman Alexie

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

— Peter Gizzi

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

— Dirk Benedict

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry…

— Agatha Christie

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to…

— Kate Zambreno

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

— Mercedes Lackey

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to each other…

— Barry Levinson

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges