Cheri Oteri Quotes

Writing is something I can do by myself.

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.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

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

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 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.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

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

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

You live alone, creating your life as you go.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

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.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.