Quiet Space Quotes

It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.

Each life needs its own quiet place.

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

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

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

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Ladies Prayer Room

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

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.