Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

— Robert M. Lindner

“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“Solitude is mental growth”

— Allison Mierop

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

— Twyla Tharp

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something…

— Marguerite Duras

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite:…

— Thomas Mann

Solitude is the profoundest fact

— Octavio Paz

“Solitude always gives birth to something.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.”

— Toni Morrison

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin