Mel Giedroyc Quotes

How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.

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.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just hang out and watch... and everything seemed calmer there and nicer there and warmer there.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

I stay in my little bubble - that is what I try and do. There is always noise out there and distractions, but you just have to block all that noise out.

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.