Katie Kitamura 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 find it distracting.

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

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 need complete silence when I write.

I never listen to music when I write.

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.

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

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

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit.' I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

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.

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.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

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.

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

I lock myself up in the apartment when I am writing a script. There's no phone, no Wi-Fi, no distractions whatsoever.

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.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

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