Writing Routines David Grann’s Writing Routine: “I do have a tendency to be very obsessive.” January 20, 2024
Writing Routines George Pelecanos’ Writing Routine: “There is so much happening in the world that can make a writer passionate and angry.” February 10, 2023
Writing Routines 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
Writing Routines Jeffrey Archer’s Writing Routine: “You can never tell when and where inspiration will strike.” July 27, 2022
Writing Routines 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
Writing Routines Karen Jennings’ Writing Routine: “I knew I wanted to be a writer, and for a long time that was enough.” July 13, 2022
Writing Routines Laila Lalami’s Writing Routine: “Uncertainty is basically everyday in a life of a writer.” July 6, 2022
Writing Routines Louise Penny’s Writing Routine: “I had to be hurt into novel writing.” June 29, 2022
Writing Routines Daisy Johnson’s Writing Routine: “The whole process of writing is one of putting things down and walking away.” June 22, 2022
Writing Routines Amanda Gorman’s Writing Routine: “To write I just needed a pen and a page.” June 15, 2022
Writing Routines Alex Michaelides’ Writing Routine: “Writing is a bit like therapy; I had stuff to work out.” June 8, 2022
Writing Routines Justin Cronin’s Writing Routine: “To write a novel is to finish one, not start one.” June 1, 2022
Writing Routines Mary Higgins Clark’s Writing Routine: “Really, writing is my sole talent.” May 18, 2022
Writing Routines Jerry Seinfeld’s Writing Routine: “It’s really the profession of writing, that’s what standup comedy is.” May 11, 2022
Writing Routines R. L. Stine’s Writing Routine: “I start to feel uncomfortable if I’m not writing, after like two weeks.” May 4, 2022
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 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 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 Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.” 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 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 Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing Routine: “You’re made very aware of why you write and how you write” April 7, 2022
Writing Routines John McPhee’s Writing Routine: “Time is the thing that has always favored me.” 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 Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.” 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 Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.” 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 Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.” 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