Quotes of: Solitary Keyword

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Jane Green

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Robert Boswell

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

Carla H. Krueger

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Golan Levin

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

Alan Arkin

That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..

Endure

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

Sylvia Plath

You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.

Munia Khan

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

Nicole Krauss

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eric Hoffer

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

Grimes

Gandalf: Far to the east, over ranges and rivers lies a single solitary peak.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.

Eragon

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Fairest

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

The Best of Me

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

F. Sionil Jose