Christopher Buckley Quotes

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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 remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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.

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 was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

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.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.