Who said "A writer must be able to stand alone."?

This quote is attributed to Ivan Turgenev.

A writer must be able to stand alone. - Ivan Turgenev

"A writer must be able to stand alone."

Ivan Turgenev Literature

Novelist Poet Russian 1818–1883

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Do you know what it means to be alone? Not just physically alone, but spiritually alone."

"I agree with no one on everything, and with everyone on something."

"Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Literature opens the mind to new worlds"

"The interesting thing about books is that they're made of words."

"Literature captures the essence of what it means to be human."