Grimes Quotes

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

You are forever 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.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

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