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Dive into these interviews to learn from the experiences of established and up-and-coming writers, as they share tips and tricks that could help you on your own writing journey.

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Steve Almond: “What matters is the ability to arrest your attention in the midst of distraction.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Peter Ho Davies: “Brief interruptions seem to be part of my writing process.”

Interview with Margot Livesey: “As I get further along, the word count usually goes down.”

Interview with Laura Cesarco Eglin: “I focus more on allowing myself free time.”

Interview with Harriet Kline: “The words always mount up eventually.”

Interview with Rebecca van Laer: “The more time I spend away from the project, the better.”

Interviews / Journalists

Interview with Greg Donahue: “I just need to step away to have any chance of unlocking it.”

Interview with Karen Havelin: “I try very hard to trust the process.”

Essayists / Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Ethel Rohan: “I find handwriting frees the subconscious and restarts flow.”

Interview with Hermione Hoby: “Writing can’t be quantified, and certainly not by word count.”

Interview with Todd Henry: “Moving my fingers on the keys is the best way to unlock ideas.”

Interview with Alyson Hagy: “I focus more on steady progress than word count.”

Interview with Cat Baab-Muguira: “I write in great bursts of inspiration and interest.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Attica Locke: “My goal is to just show up to work and go as long as I can.”

Interview with David Shields: “I count it a good day so long as I’m working on the book.”

Interviews / Journalists

Interview with Ted Conover: “Writing is still hard for me, but it gets easier if I stick to a routine.”

Interview with Sareeta Domingo: “Persevere, and choose projects in which you have the utmost belief.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Michael Arditti: “My own process is one of constant refining and polishing.”

Interview With Trevor Wood: “Writers like to prevaricate at the best of times.”

Interviews / Journalists

Interview with Dan Charnas: “Different types of writing require different levels of immersion.”

Editors / Interviews

Interview with Seyward Darby: “As a writer I tend to work like a quilter.”

Interview with Jo Thomas: “Each book starts in the same way as I cook dinner.”

Interview with Jess Row: “I have to protect my writing time carefully.”

Interview with Lucy Tan: “I have a very limited source of pure creative energy.”

Interviews / Journalists

Interview with Albert Samaha: “Seven hours of writing is nothing when you’re flowing.”

Interview with Anjali Enjeti: “Some days I have a lot of ideas, other days I have none.”

Interview with Jeffery Deaver: “I never have a block in the writing process.”

Interview with Charlotte Mandell: “Our language is shaped by the language of others.”

Interview with Anita Felicelli: “You’re juggling with one hand while miming climbing out of a well with the other.”

Interview with Peter Mountford: “Your first and most important job is simply to command their attention.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Christine Sneed: “By the time we entered lockdown, I was utterly exhausted.”

Interview with Jeffrey Archer: “I feel very lucky not to have suffered writer’s block.”

Interview with Mark Ellis: “You must persist if you believe in your work.”

Interview with Rachel Abbott: “Self-publishing is time-consuming and requires real dedication.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Joanne Harris: “Writing just a few hundred words a day can help me maintain focus.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Zoje Stage: “I have acquired the ability to write fairly quickly, once I’m fully focused.”

Interview with Shannon Reed: “I don’t lack for inspiration, just for time.”

Interviews / Novelists

Interview with Amanda Jennings: “My way of coping was to open my book, hide under a blanket, and read.”

Interviews / Poets

Interview with Yanyi: “Good writing doesn’t come from a desire to be published.”

Interview with Bill McKibben: “For some reason I’m especially productive on trains.”

Interview with Will Mackin: “Once I accepted that, my imagination asserted itself.”

Interview with Ed Simon: “It’s all about putting one word after another.”

Interview with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum: “It taught me that the creative process isn’t fragile.”

Interview with Matthew Specktor: “I’ve enjoyed writing a memoir much more than I ever would have imagined I would.”

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