Quotes About Solitude

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

I enjoy not being a public company.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

I'm not in public life except by accident.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

Frankly, I don't like publicity.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

I don't go running after publicity.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.

I don't go to pubs.

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.