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Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

I like to have quiet evenings and relax.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.