Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

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

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

When I write I find a quiet place.

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

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.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

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

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

Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

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 need complete silence when I write.

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.

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

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

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

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

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

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

I work in silence.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.