Robin Sloan Quotes

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.

Warrior Writer workshops have sprung up across the country, and of the ones I've attended and participated in, most contain at least one or two star writers.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

When you're a writer in Hollywood, you don't get to work with other writers. You barely get to meet other writers. We're interchangeable, disposable pieces that never really get to collaborate.

It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some really great lines.

There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It's real hard to draw on something to write.