“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone.”
Anthony Minghella

“It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.”
Natalie Imbruglia

“Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.”
Kenneth Williams

“- Stuart Ullman: Physically, it's not a very demanding job. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is, uh, a tremendous sense of isolation.
- Jack Torrance: Well, that just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'm outlining a new writing project and, uh, five months of peace is just what I want.”
Barry Nelson - Ullman
Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

“Just because you're going to be alone now doesn't mean the world stops turning. You'll keep writing in your notebooks and when you're grown up and you publish your first novel, I'll be first in line at that bookstore, getting an autographed copy.”

Rosie O'Donnell - Ole Golly