Melissa Marr Quotes

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

For a man's house is his castle.

A man's home is his castle. His bedroom is in the middle of it. I don't want anyone snooping around in my bedroom.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

I like to have space.

In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.

We do everything we can, obviously, to keep as private a life as possible.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

I like being able to go to the grocery store and know that nobody knows what I do or who I am.

I am not someone who enjoys being followed and harassed. I prefer to stay at home with my family than to go out.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

A place to keep all your secrets

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.