Michael Chabon Quotes

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

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.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

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

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

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

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

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

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

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

I write to feel alone.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.