Sinead O'Connor Quotes

As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.

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

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.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

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.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Writing is a lonely profession.

The writer works in a lonely way.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

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

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

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

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

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