Andrew W.K. Quotes

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.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

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.