Aram Saroyan Quotes

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

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.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

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.

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.