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

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