Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent without radio, without newspapers, without a whole lot of people to interact with, without anybody having any sort of similar background to me.

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia.

Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.