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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

I enjoy the quiet life.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.