Philip Pullman Quotes

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

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, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I never listen to music when I write.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.