Max Nordau Quotes

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

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

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

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.

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

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

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.

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 hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.