Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
I am rather inclined to silence.
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
When I write I find a quiet place.
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.