Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. — George Sand Copy Share Image
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail. — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task. — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added… — Aoife O'Donovan Copy Share Image
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as… — Ed Cyzewski Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ...… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.” — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
