Annie Leibovitz Quotes

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.