Bob Colacello Quotes

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'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.

I write to feel alone.

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

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want to go to a party. I just want to stay home and read my murder mysteries and try to write and cook dinner.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

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

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.