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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. ↗

— Seth Godin

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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. ↗

— Zane Grey

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If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. ↗

— Terry Gross

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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger. ↗

— Marc Almond

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Working is hard and distracts from having fun. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗