Distracted Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to…

— Julie Kagawa

That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.

— Cornelia Parker

“Turn off your wireless router (if you’re working on a deep work task that doesn’t require the Internet). •      Play music or white noise that…

— S.J. Scott

I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the zone because…

— Irvine Welsh

When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.

— Tavi Gevinson

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

— Woody Allen

I lock myself up in the apartment when I am writing a script. There's no phone, no Wi-Fi, no distractions whatsoever.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too…

— Elissa Schappell

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I don't distract myself from work stuff with funny emails and surfing the internet when I'm at work; I don't distract myself from my…

— Mark Schlereth

Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I'm just working without distraction. It's just the way I'm…

— Lee Zeldin

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work…

— Graham Linehan