Quotes About Solitude

Novel writing is solitary work.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

I like to work at night.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

Joblessness is a time for reflection

Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that whether or not I can hang out, I've always been the one to go in my room and chill.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.