Appetite Quote by Will Self

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 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

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

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

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of…

— Brit Marling

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be…

— Nicky Wire

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

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

— Rod Serling

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