Pedro Almodovar Quotes

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

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

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

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

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.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

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.