Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

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.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.