Adriana Trigiani Quotes

When I write I find a quiet place.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

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

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

I like working in silence.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

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.