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I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

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

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

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 much I can't write.

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