Alone Quote by Simon Mawer Download Open image “I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!” — Simon Mawer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alone Easy Find Heaven Very Writer Writing
It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head. — Gillian Robespierre Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to… — Markus Zusak 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 of your… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way.… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic:… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“I'm fond of her." Oh yeah? Fond are you? I've heard of fond. I expect old erection here" - she pointed to the tube… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.” — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn’t look. It wasn’t the notes, it… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I can be taken away from myself quite easily, I kind of start betraying myself and compromising my integrity, to keep someone else happy.… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
If your goal is to look different, you'll see results faster with strength training than with cardio alone. — Anna Kaiser Copy Share Image
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
I never knew a heart could feel so cold so empty so broken until now , I don't know what to say I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're disabled or different from what general society deems normal, it's fine. There will always be people who won't accept you, but there… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience…A Journey With My Girl — Luckybannu Copy Share Image
“What I'm trying to say is that I spent the last four months learning to be alone, avoiding the world, hating pretty much anyone… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
I'm used to being alone in a quiet, isolated environment - I'm kind of a low-energy, low-vibration, low-stamina person to begin with - so… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
