Christopher Young Quotes

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

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

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

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

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

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.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

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.

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

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

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

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.

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.

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