Kate DiCamillo Quotes

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

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 me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.