“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”

“Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality”

“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”

“There is a solitude of space,A solitude of sea,A solitude of death, but theseSociety shall be,Compared with that profounder site,That polar privacy,A Soul admitted to itself:Finite infinity.”

“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time .... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.”

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”