“I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.” — Katie Kitamura Quote

“I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.”

“The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.”

“The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.”

“I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.”

“I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.”

“Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.”