What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.