Tom Robbins Quotes

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

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

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

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

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

The writer works in a lonely way.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.