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Writing Routines

An in-depth look at the daily writing routines of famous authors throughout history. Delve into the creative processes of renowned writers, this page provides insight into the habits and routines that helped them achieve literary success.

Writing Routines

David Grann’s Writing Routine: “I do have a tendency to be very obsessive.”

January 20, 2024

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George Pelecanos’ Writing Routine: “There is so much happening in the world that can make a writer passionate and angry.”

February 10, 2023

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Joseph Heller’s Writing Routine: “I feel that these ideas are floating around in the air and they pick me to settle upon.”

August 3, 2022

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Jeffrey Archer’s Writing Routine: “You can never tell when and where inspiration will strike.”

July 27, 2022

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Gillian Flynn’s Writing Routine: “There’s no muse that’s going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write.”

July 20, 2022

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Karen Jennings’ Writing Routine: “I knew I wanted to be a writer, and for a long time that was enough.”

July 13, 2022

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Laila Lalami’s Writing Routine: “Uncertainty is basically everyday in a life of a writer.”

July 6, 2022

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Louise Penny’s Writing Routine: “I had to be hurt into novel writing.”

June 29, 2022

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Daisy Johnson’s Writing Routine: “The whole process of writing is one of putting things down and walking away.”

June 22, 2022

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Amanda Gorman’s Writing Routine: “To write I just needed a pen and a page.”

June 15, 2022

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Alex Michaelides’ Writing Routine: “Writing is a bit like therapy; I had stuff to work out.”

June 8, 2022

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Justin Cronin’s Writing Routine: “To write a novel is to finish one, not start one.”

June 1, 2022

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Mary Higgins Clark’s Writing Routine: “Really, writing is my sole talent.”

May 18, 2022

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Jerry Seinfeld’s Writing Routine: “It’s really the profession of writing, that’s what standup comedy is.”

May 11, 2022

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R. L. Stine’s Writing Routine: “I start to feel uncomfortable if I’m not writing, after like two weeks.”

May 4, 2022

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John Boyne’s Writing Routine: “I’m not quite sure what to do with days off.”

April 27, 2022

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Ocean Vuong’s Writing Routine: “You can’t just sit down and wing it.”

April 22, 2022

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Salman Rushdie’s Writing Routine: “I don’t have any strange, occult practices.”

April 21, 2022

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Antony Beevor’s Writing Routine: “There is no excuse for not writing when it’s non-fiction.”

April 21, 2022

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Maggie Shipstead’s Writing Routine: “I have to write about what fascinates and moves me.”

April 21, 2022

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Joyce Carol Oates’ Writing Routine: “Be in some place where you’re not interrupted.”

April 21, 2022

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Graham Greene’s Writing Routine: “The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people.”

April 21, 2022

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Marlon James’ Writing Routine: “I can’t wait on inspiration to write a novel.”

April 21, 2022

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Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.”

April 21, 2022

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Karin Slaughter’s Writing Routine: “I think ‘obsessive’ is probably the diagnosis.”

April 21, 2022

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Writing Routine: “It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people.”

April 21, 2022

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Writing Routine: “I built my entire life around writing.”

April 21, 2022

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Richard Powers’ Writing Routine: “Write or don’t write, but be there.”

April 21, 2022

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David Baldacci’s Writing Routine: “Nobody ever masters the art of writing.”

April 18, 2022

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Ian Fleming’s Writing Routine: “If I just wait for genius to arrive from the skies, it just doesn’t arrive.”

April 18, 2022

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Ben Fountain’s Writing Routine: “I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.”

April 14, 2022

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Neil Gaiman’s Writing Routine: “You have permission to not write, but you don’t have permission to do anything else.”

April 11, 2022

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Toni Morrison’s Writing Routine: “What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

April 7, 2022

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Mateo Askaripour’s Writing Routine: “I called myself a writer when I began pursuing writing seriously.”

April 7, 2022

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing Routine: “You’re made very aware of why you write and how you write”

April 7, 2022

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John McPhee’s Writing Routine: “Time is the thing that has always favored me.”

April 7, 2022

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Emily St. John Mandel’s Writing Routine: “I find the book in the revision process.”

April 7, 2022

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Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.”

April 7, 2022

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Haruki Murakami’s Writing Routine: “I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”

April 7, 2022

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Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.”

April 7, 2022

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Elmore Leonard’s Writing Routine: “I’ve stayed with it for over 50 years and it’s paid off.”

April 7, 2022

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Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.”

April 7, 2022

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Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine: “All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.”

April 7, 2022

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Stephen King’s Writing Routine: “I have a routine because I think that writing is self-hypnosis.”

April 7, 2022

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Paul Auster’s Writing Routine: “It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure.”

April 7, 2022