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# Artistic Loneliness
- URL: https://www.richardjnewman.com/microblog/artistic-loneliness/
- Published: 2025-09-24T19:18:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-24T21:22:36.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
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*“\[I\]n that library I experienced loneliness, real loneliness, but also exquisite artistic loneliness: You’re lonely but also exquisitely happy if it’s snowing outside and you’re working on a novel. There’s nothing more gorgeous than that.”*

*—*Kiran Desai, quoted in *Poets & Writers*