If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

I always loved spending time in my room, reading my books, and wandering to a distinct place that only I am aware of. That always felt luxurious to me.

I’d only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.

I would shut myself away in my room, just like I had as a kid when my parents were fighting, and try and ignore what was happening.

I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people.

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.