Gautham Menon Quotes

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

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.

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

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.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

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.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

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

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.

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

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

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

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

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.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.