Stuart Woods Quotes

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.

The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

I could be anywhere. I just need my space to work.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.

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.

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.