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

I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other…

— Jayson Werth

Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don't see enough.

— Will Graham

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

— Marilu Henner

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to…

— Saoirse Ronan

“You’re distracting,” I said truthfully. “I won’t be. I promise,” Noah said. “I’ll get some crayons and draw quietly. Alone. In a corner.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“Why is it that you think that technologies are any more distracting than your own mind or anything else in the world?”

— Manoush Zomorodi

The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.

— Jeff Lowe

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

— David Allen

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain…

— John Hodgman

“For some reason it reminded her of his fingers caressing her cheek in the tiny room. But that thought, along with his exposed throat…

— Melanie Dickerson

You don't say "Maybe I should go to bed early tonight" or do any of that stuff. It's almost like you know you're alone…

— Ladyhawke

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the…

— Sefi Atta