Alison Weir Quotes

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

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

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I am such a reclusive person that, literally, when I am done shooting, at some level I sort of disassociate myself, and I get back to reading my books.

I'm low-key. I like my privacy.

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my time.

I have to be me, which is, don't like a lot of crowds, don't like a lot of attention - kind of being by myself.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.