#lonely

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. ↗

— Anne Rice

#become #group #like #lonely #might

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#boring #boring people #could #feel #guess

It's a dismally lonely business, writing. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#lonely #lonely business #writing

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. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#blending-in #lonely

People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world. ↗

— Kim Culbertson

#lonely

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#human #lonely #need #lonely

Lonely was much better than alone. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #lonely

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#pain #scar #lonely

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. ↗

— Jean Webster

#lonely #out-of-place #outcast #outsider #lonely