Quotes About Solitude

I rarely go out, and I am not interested in golf or anything like that.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

I learned about not just being with someone because I don't want to be alone: being willing to be alone, and then find something that feels right and just reaching for companionship for companionship's sake. Not letting drama lead my life.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

But I've realised that sometimes you have to walk away and take some time for yourself.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.'

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I like being on my own, but at times when I don't, I'll phone a friend or the grandchildren.