Simon Van Booy Quotes

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

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

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

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

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

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.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

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 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 never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I need complete silence when I write.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

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.

When I write I find a quiet place.

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.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

I really do work in solitude.