Vikram Seth Quotes

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

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.

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 never listen to music when I'm writing.

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

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

I never listen to music when I write.

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

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

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

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 don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

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

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.

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

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

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

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

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

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

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.