Michael Finkel Quotes

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

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

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

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.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

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

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I love being by myself.

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

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

You only grow when you are alone.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.