For me, there’s nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all. – Jandy Nelson
I like silence; I’m a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. – Karen Armstrong
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you’re just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about. – John Wells
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. – Laurie Helgoe
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. – Jane Hirshfield
I’ve never minded solitude. For a writer, it’s a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness. – Laurie Graham
Emily Dickinson has haunted my life – her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I’ve had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own. – Jerome Charyn
The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude. – Sara Coleridge
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that’s becoming a very precious and rare commodity. – Robyn Davidson
Much of the time I’m an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer’s sensibility. – Robyn Davidson
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. – Saint Francis de Sales
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. – Rainer Maria Rilke
