The current home of Georgian monk Maxime Qavtaradze. Photo by orientalizing on Flickr

Antisocial writers are bad writers

Writing comes from experience.

The act of writing is a solitary affair, but not the act of being a writer.

Hemingway, the archetypical writer lived a full live of big game hunting, war reporting & binge drinking in Paris.

You may think, ok, then you at least must think alone. The idea of the hermit thinker comes from christian times, not roman or greek.

The Swerve page 68.

The only act of writing alone comes after all that experience & debate. You rush to write it all out, but your well will run dry and then you must head out and live once again.