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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
I need complete silence when I write.
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.
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 music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Music is the silence between the notes.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.