Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
“Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved.” — Kristen Ciccarelli Copy Share Image
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a… — John Buchan 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
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off… — Joss Whedon 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
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
“He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“...It was never meant for a human being to be so solitary. He'd get touched in the head if he hadna them… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
“When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. Not to mention the fact that we must be revenged for having to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear… — lauren klarfeld Copy Share Image
I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking,… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“ There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives… — Conrad De Meester Copy Share Image
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
