Quotes About Solitude

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.