Quotes on Recluse

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.