Listening Quote by Rachel Kushner

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

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

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

— Katie Kitamura

I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I…

— Gail Honeyman

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to…

— Erik Larson

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Stephen Greenblatt

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

— Alison Goldfrapp

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

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…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Mary Roach

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if…

— Ronnie Montrose