Stacy Schiff Quotes

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

I literally cannot work without music.

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

I listen to music constantly while writing.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

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

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

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

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

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 get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

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.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

At night I can write for hours.

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'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.