For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

- Aimee Bender

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

- Bill Halter

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

- Hannah Kent

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

- Joan Didion

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

- Novak Djokovic

I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

- Neil Marshall

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

- Ray McKinnon