Boat Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

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

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

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

I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over…

— Anna Todd

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

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

— Rod Serling

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I…

— Katherine Paterson

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new…

— John Wells

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

— Julianne MacLean