Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

When you're home all the time, you don't have as much courage.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.