“I think my own addiction to narrow distractions while writing is a hard wire left from my days in advertising; if you aren’t coming up with an idea, you check email to see what other crisis looms. I have found this a terrible and difficult habit to break.”

—former advertising creative director and current novelist Jeff Abbott, in the comments section of Paul Ford’s 43 Folders guest post about “Amish Computing”

TOPICS: creativity, productivity, quotations, writing.

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