Quotes About Solitude

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday compared with a solitary march to the South Pole.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.