Grief Quote by Toni Morrison

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“What a writer needs? A friend. A friend that’ll accompany beside solitude itself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

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

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

“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

“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always been too…

— Anonymous

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to…

— Junot Diaz

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.”

— Brie Edison

“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine, shout, and…

— Alexina Benavidez

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim