Matt Mullenweg Quotes

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

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

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The climate informs the character.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

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.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

I have lived in South Delhi amidst greenery.