Quotes About Isolation

I haven't got any friends on the track when I have my helmet on but whenever I take it off, I am a normal person at the end.

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

All of North Korea is a jail.

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

We don't have friends in North Korea. We only have comrades. There's no concept of friends.

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.

Most North Korean people have never seen a map of the world. They don't even know that the Internet exists. They don't even have electricity.

I am drawn to cold, desolate places rather than Hawaii. I actually love Hawaii too, but I tend to go to Iceland or Norway or Northern Japan - northern places for whatever reason. Which aren't necessarily the best places to tour.

Norway is a small environment. There are only three to four agents to deal with, just 15 other clubs, and that's it!

J. K. Rowling has said that she was bullied in school. She was a daydreamer and had her nose in books all the time, much like some of her characters today.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

My folks have a cottage north of Kingston, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, and I can be there very happily for like a week.