Writing Routines John Boyne’s Writing Routine: “I’m not quite sure what to do with days off.” April 27, 2022
Writing Routines Ocean Vuong’s Writing Routine: “You can’t just sit down and wing it.” April 22, 2022
Writing Routines Salman Rushdie’s Writing Routine: “I don’t have any strange, occult practices.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Antony Beevor’s Writing Routine: “There is no excuse for not writing when it’s non-fiction.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Maggie Shipstead’s Writing Routine: “I have to write about what fascinates and moves me.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Graham Greene’s Writing Routine: “The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Marlon James’ Writing Routine: “I can’t wait on inspiration to write a novel.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Karin Slaughter’s Writing Routine: “I think ‘obsessive’ is probably the diagnosis.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Kurt Vonnegut’s Writing Routine: “It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Elizabeth Gilbert’s Writing Routine: “I built my entire life around writing.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Joyce Carol Oates’ Writing Routine: “Be in some place where you’re not interrupted.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines Richard Powers’ Writing Routine: “Write or don’t write, but be there.” April 21, 2022
Writing Routines David Baldacci’s Writing Routine: “Nobody ever masters the art of writing.” April 18, 2022
Writing Routines Ian Fleming’s Writing Routine: “If I just wait for genius to arrive from the skies, it just doesn’t arrive.” April 18, 2022
Writing Routines Ben Fountain’s Writing Routine: “I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.” April 14, 2022
Writing Routines Neil Gaiman’s Writing Routine: “You have permission to not write, but you don’t have permission to do anything else.” April 11, 2022
Writing Routines Toni Morrison’s Writing Routine: “What do I need in order to release my imagination?” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Mateo Askaripour’s Writing Routine: “I called myself a writer when I began pursuing writing seriously.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines John McPhee’s Writing Routine: “Time is the thing that has always favored me.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing Routine: “You’re made very aware of why you write and how you write” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Emily St. John Mandel’s Writing Routine: “I find the book in the revision process.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Haruki Murakami’s Writing Routine: “I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Elmore Leonard’s Writing Routine: “I’ve stayed with it for over 50 years and it’s paid off.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine: “All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Stephen King’s Writing Routine: “I have a routine because I think that writing is self-hypnosis.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Paul Auster’s Writing Routine: “It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Truman Capote’s Writing Routine: “Intelligence alone can’t make a good writer.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine: “All you have to do is write one true sentence.” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Michael Lewis’ Writing Routine: “I couldn’t imagine wanting to do anything else for a living” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines Philip Roth’s Writing Routine: “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.” April 5, 2022
Writing Routines Robert Caro’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know how good a writer I am. But I’m a very good interviewer.” April 1, 2022
Writing Routines Dan Brown’s Writing Routine: “Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.” March 27, 2022
Writing Routines Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Writing Routine: “I got to that point by writing a lot, reading a lot, and enduring a lot.” March 27, 2022
Writing Routines Michael Connelly’s Writing Routine: “Writing is all about finding momentum and keeping it.” March 25, 2022
Writing Routines Barack Obama’s Writing Routine: “Because nothing is more terrifying than the blank page.” March 25, 2022
Writing Routines John Grisham’s Writing Routine: “Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.” March 25, 2022
Writing Routines Jessica Bruder’s Writing Routine: “My best story ideas are the kind that have haunted me with questions each night.” March 25, 2022
Writing Routines Ann Patchett’s Writing Routine: “Starting a novel isn’t so different from starting a marriage.” March 24, 2022
