In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
Source: In diary used to warm up for his daily stint of writing; in NY Times, 2 Jun 1969.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.