Taylor Momsen Quotes

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Extraordinary things happen in solitude.

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.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

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.

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 need complete silence when I write.

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

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.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

When I write I find a quiet place.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

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.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

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