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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.

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Paula Hawkins’ Writing Routine: “I sit down at my desk and get on with it.”

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James McBride’s Writing Routine: “You have to fall in love with the idea. Let the story take over.”

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Jennifer Egan’s Writing Routine: “You go from underrated writer to overhyped writer.”

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Mark Haddon’s Writing Routine: “I’m not a terribly good writer, but I’m a persistent editor.”

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Hilary Mantel’s Writing Routine: “You have to trust yourself, and trust the process.”

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Mick Herron’s Writing Routine: “Writing’s like making an omelette.”

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Harlan Coben’s Writing Routine: “If it produces pages: good. If it doesn’t: bad.”

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

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

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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.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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