Drew Goddard Quotes

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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

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.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

Writing is a lonely business.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

The writer works in a lonely way.

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

Writing is a lonely process.