Robert MacNeil Quotes

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

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.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I live for the blank page.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

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

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

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

Art class was my safe haven.

I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.