Private Work Quotes

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.

I don't really like to talk too much about what I've been working on. I'm more of a 'show' type of guy.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is sit alone in a darkened room, flicking through some pages, jumping on a treadmill now and then. I keep my serious work as a writer private, but that doesn't mean it's not serious work - quite the opposite.

I would say, at least once a week, I get approached by a pro athlete or a celebrity or someone who wants some work done.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

In the past, I was free to write in quiet and in the space wherever my desk was at. I could leave my instruments out. In the past, my writing was super private; I never liked showing my work at its earliest stages.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.