I need complete silence when I write.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

— Lev Grossman

It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale…

— Frederic Chopin

I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at…

— Jane Hirshfield

If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured,…

— F. Paul Wilson

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

— Adriana Trigiani

Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking.

— CM Punk

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

— Andre Kostelanetz

“Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.”

— Anonymous Bedouin

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

— Cameron Diaz

The akward moment when you get asked out on a date infront of the whole class in complete silence , with everyones eyes on…

— Nelly Gutierrez

“Watch the sunset without speaking, just like a bird watching the sunset in complete silence!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“No calls, no emails, no Facebook messages, no letters, no Morse code with a flashlight during the dark hours of the night, no smoke…

— Salla Simukka

“Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. ”

— Alan Bradley

“After shutting off the phone to ignore the incessant ringing, I'm proud of myself. I hear nothing but silence. There is nothing torturing me.…

— Sarah Ann Walker

“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.”

— Jarod Kintz