Nana Mouskouri Quotes

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

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.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

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 dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

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 was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I write to feel alone.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

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

I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I just wanna hear my own voice.

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