Quotes About Solitude

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.

It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I'm comfortable with that.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

For me, writing and creating music can be quite a solitary thing.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

I'm quite a solitary person. I like being on my own.

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.