‘Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working.’
– Rebecca Solnit
‘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.’
– Ernest Hemingway
ends in solace 