I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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.
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.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.
When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
