Jennifer Armentrout Quotes

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

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

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

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

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

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

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

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.

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

I don't like having my space invaded.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

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.