Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

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

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

One is inspired only in solitude.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

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

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

When I write I find a quiet place.

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.