“I write best when listening to music. Perfect conditions would be listening to music on noise-cancelling headphones, ideally at dawn, and most ideally looking out onto an empty white-sands beach in a vacation house all to myself (this last scenario has never happened). I find that writing comes easier to me when I am feeling the same emotion as the characters in the scene I am working on–and nothing is more efficient and effective in transporting me to specific moods than music...” – Largehearted Boy