Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

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

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 necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

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

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Imagination is something you do alone.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.