Jenji Kohan Quotes

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

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

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

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

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.