Phyllis McGinley Quotes

All we ask is to be let alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

People should just let me be.

Solitude is independence.

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

I don't like having my space invaded.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

I just want to be left alone.

I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

I like my space.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

I believe in having a private life.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

I just love my privacy.