Top 54 Reclusive Quotes
#1. Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.
Brie Edison
#2. We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.
Iain Reid
#3. Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Caroline Knapp
#4. The idea appealed to me. Living with Elizabeth would be excellent prophylaxis against my natural reclusive, agoraphobic tendencies.
Penny Reid
#5. Welcomes seclusion. Not precisely antisocial, but reclusive.
Chris Bohjalian
#6. That's right, I'm a reclusive pervert, and I make no apologies for it. And, giving the matter some thought, a reclusive pervert is much preferable to an extroverted pervert.
L. H. Cosway
#7. I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.
Anthony Warlow
#8. I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!
Linda Grant
#9. I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.
Penny Reid
#10. Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.
Tim Gunn
#11. I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.
Peter Loftin
#12. I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.
Corey Hart
#13. Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
Mika.
#14. I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
Kate Bush
#15. I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.
Don DeLillo
#18. It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
Banks
#19. Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
Mason Cooley
#20. The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Marilyn Hacker
#21. Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.
Cris Mazza
#22. The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
Bill Dedman
#23. Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#24. One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
Gus Van Sant
#25. The problem with being, as I was then, and on some days continue to be, neither adventurous nor reclusive is that you want friends, but you don't want them to do anything you wouldn't do. But you wouldn't do anything.
Katie Heaney
#26. I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
Kate Bush
#27. I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
Lia Ices
#28. I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.
Kirk Kerkorian
#29. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.
Rick Astley
#32. He looks up at the sound of the gravel crunch on the driveway, and I catch a flash of impression, a reclusive animal surprised in his lair by the arrival of the hunters.
Ben H. Winters
#33. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.
Penny Reid
#34. I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
Enya
#35. I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
Sandra Cisneros
#36. Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. In dialect.
J.D. Salinger
#37. The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.
Susan Cain
#38. I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
Tori Amos
#39. In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.
David Mitchell
#40. My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
John Searles
#41. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.
KaraLynne Mackrory
#42. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Robert Breault
#43. I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
Liz Phair
#44. The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or just His twisted sense of humor?
Kirstie Collins Brote
#45. I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu
#46. You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.
Evan Rachel Wood
#47. Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.
Jake Wood
#48. I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#49. Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
Thomas Pynchon
#50. You've always
been skinny,
always will.
I can feel
each
reclusive
bone
poke through,
the bones of
Embarrassment,
Anger,
Relief.
I push some back in,
but leave
Anger
sticking out.
Thalia Chaltas
#53. Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk.
Brandon Sanderson
#54. We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.
Frederick Lenz
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