I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.

Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

An economy can survive with 10% of the population insolation. It can't survive when 50% of the population is in isolation.