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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

At night I can write for hours.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

I really do work in solitude.