Chevy Stevens Quotes

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I always write about what interests me.

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'