Peter Handke Quotes

I love to write.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

Silence is so accurate.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

Night is the mother of thoughts.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

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

When I write I find a quiet place.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Listen to the sound of silence.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.