Able Quote by Daniel Alarcon

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— John Grisham

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

— Mary Roach

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…

— Vikram Seth

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

— Katie Kitamura

When I'm writing, I can't listen to anything with lyrics, because it's too distracting.

— Katy Wix

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way…

— Dan Chaon

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind…

— Robert Christgau

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices…

— Billy Joel

I only write when listening to the music.

— Mod Sun

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then…

— Gabrielle Zevin