Hannibal Buress Quotes

When I write, I try to turn my Internet off so I can't procrastinate through the Internet, but then I just get deeply involved in whatever I have just on my computer.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

It's hard to edit. It's hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we'll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the internet has made it very hard to be bored.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.