Jami Attenberg Quotes

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

Even when I'm travelling - which is when I do most of my writing - I have a little portable keyboard.

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 a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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!

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

At night I can write for hours.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

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.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

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 should be concentrating on writing pages.

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

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

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

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

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

I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It's really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.