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Novel writing is solitary work.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Writing is a lonely profession.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

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 lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

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 and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

Writing is a lonely business.