Emma McLaughlin Quotes

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

I never listen to music 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.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

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

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

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

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.

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

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

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

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

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.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

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

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!

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.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.