I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

- Arthur Smith

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

- Andrew Greeley

I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I'm not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I'm a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know - like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.

- Awkwafina

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

- Augusten Burroughs

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

- Asif Kapadia

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

- Asif Kapadia

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

- Ashley Judd

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

- Artie Lange

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

- Ann Demeulemeester

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

- Andrea Arnold

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

- Anthony Browne

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

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

- Audre Lorde

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

- Anton Chekhov

I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.

- Andie MacDowell

We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

- Albert Einstein

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

- Alain de Botton