Quotes of: Reclusive Keyword

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

Morris Gleitzman

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Camille Paglia

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Daniel Day-Lewis

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Marilyn Hacker

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Kenko Yoshida

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Tori Amos

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Mika

Harald Vanger: I'm not a recluse. I don't close my door to anybody. They just don't visit.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Agnetha Faltskog

I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

Anthony Warlow

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!

Thomas Pynchon

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Margaret Fuller

I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

Amber Le Bon

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

Gus Van Sant

I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.

Peter Loftin

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'

Caroline Knapp

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

Chris Lowe

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

Christopher Lloyd