Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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 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 when I write. I need silence.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
