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“To be in favor of solitude is not to be against community or friendship or love. It’s not that being alone is better, just that without the experience of it we block ourselves from discovering something enormously beneficial, perhaps even vital, to selfhood. Who are you when you are not a friend, a partner, a lover, a sibling, a parent, a child? When no one is with you, what do you do, and do you do it differently than if someone was there?”

— A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain

It’s hard for us to see our own selves if we’re not ever alone.

Amina Cain Interviewed by Laura Adamczyk