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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Joyce Carol Oates’ Writing Routine: “Be in some place where you’re not interrupted.”
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Writing Routine: “I built my entire life around writing.”
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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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Karin Slaughter’s Writing Routine: “I think ‘obsessive’ is probably the diagnosis.”
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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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Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.”
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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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Haruki Murakami’s Writing Routine: “I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”
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Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.”
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Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.”
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Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.”
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Elmore Leonard’s Writing Routine: “I’ve stayed with it for over 50 years and it’s paid off.”
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Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine: “All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.”
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Stephen King’s Writing Routine: “I have a routine because I think that writing is self-hypnosis.”
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Paul Auster’s Writing Routine: “It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure.”
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Truman Capote’s Writing Routine: “Intelligence alone can’t make a good writer.”
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Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine: “All you have to do is write one true sentence.”
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Michael Lewis’ Writing Routine: “I couldn’t imagine wanting to do anything else for a living”
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Philip Roth’s Writing Routine: “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.”
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Robert Caro’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know how good a writer I am. But I’m a very good interviewer.”
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Maya Angelou’s Writing Routine: “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
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Dan Brown’s Writing Routine: “Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.”
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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Writing Routine: “I got to that point by writing a lot, reading a lot, and enduring a lot.”
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Michael Connelly’s Writing Routine: “Writing is all about finding momentum and keeping it.”
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Barack Obama’s Writing Routine: “Because nothing is more terrifying than the blank page.”
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John Grisham’s Writing Routine: “Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.”
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Jessica Bruder’s Writing Routine: “My best story ideas are the kind that have haunted me with questions each night.”
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Ann Patchett’s Writing Routine: “Starting a novel isn’t so different from starting a marriage.”
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