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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.