Debi Gliori Quotes

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

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

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

I write to feel alone.

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

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 used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.