Isolation Quote by Woody Allen

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

— Paula Cole

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

— Paul Auster

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

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

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you…

— Dwight V. Swain

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley