James Avery Quotes

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

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.

Writing is a lonely business.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

I didn't have a lot of friends. I just walked around a lot and made up stories in my head. Then I'd go home and write them down. That's how I got started.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

Writing is a lonely process.

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

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

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.

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

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

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

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

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

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

Composition has almost always been solitary.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.