F. Paul Wilson Quotes

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

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

I listen to music constantly while 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 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.

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

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

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

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

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

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

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

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 listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

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.

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.