Art Quote by Tom Robbins

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be…

— Jasmila Zbanic

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd…

— Arundhati Roy

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and…

— Paul Kane

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

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 don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude…

— Jarod Kintz

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell