I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
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I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
I need complete silence when I write.
I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.
When I write I find a quiet place.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.