Vaclav Smil Quotes

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Writing is a lonely business.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.