Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

Composition has almost always been solitary.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Solitude is un-American.

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

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

I don't care about a social life.

I really do work in solitude.

The writer works in a lonely way.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

And I love working, that's my life. I'm a lonely person anyway. I don't like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

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 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.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

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.

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!