Quotes About Solitude

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

I would love to live in the wilds of nowhere, and when writing 'Chronicles,' I would occasionally rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere that had no mobile reception, but I'm not about to move away from my family.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

I did have an imaginary girlfriend.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

I just like my independence and freedom to come and go and not have an entourage.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Je ne savais pas encore quOn ne peut plus rire quand on est tout seul. On peut monologuer, on parle souvent tout haut, mais étrangement, le rire ne se produit plus.

Es solitario aquel o aquella que no es el número uno para nadie.

Go forth with crowds; in loneliness is danger.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.

When I'm alone with only dreams of you that won't come true what'll I do?