"The Need For Solitude" quote from Canadian author and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 2013, Alice Munro

“I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.” 

~ Alice Munro, Selected Stories