Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 1, 1959
Birthday: November 1
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
source: Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing
topic: Silence, Solitude, After Hours, Idle Chatter