Courtney Love Quotes

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

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.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

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

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.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

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.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

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

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I love being by myself.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

I enjoy my time alone.