Ludwig Goransson Quotes

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

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.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

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

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.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.

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

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

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.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

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

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

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

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.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.