I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I operate in such a vacuum. I write by myself, it's a very solitary experience, and I'm not used to, I've never… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters… — Anne Tyler 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
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night. — Paul O'Grady 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
The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some… — Sarah Winnemucca Copy Share Image
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
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