Interview with Joanne Harris: “Writing just a few hundred words a day can help me maintain focus.”
Joanne Harris (OBE) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Zoje Stage: “I have acquired the ability to write fairly quickly, once I’m fully focused.”
Zoje Stage’s debut novel, Baby Teeth (2018), received four star reviews, was a USA Today and international bestseller,…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Shannon Reed: “I don’t lack for inspiration, just for time.”
Shannon Reed is a writer and professor living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, she began…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Amanda Jennings: “My way of coping was to open my book, hide under a blanket, and read.”
Amanda Jennings was born in London in 1973, and her family moved to a village in rural Berkshire…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Yanyi: “Good writing doesn’t come from a desire to be published.”
Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Bill McKibben: “For some reason I’m especially productive on trains.”
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Will Mackin: “Once I accepted that, my imagination asserted itself.”
Will Mackin is a native of Marmora, New Jersey. His first book, Bring Out the Dog, won the…
June 22, 2022
Daisy Johnson’s Writing Routine: “The whole process of writing is one of putting things down and walking away.”
Daisy Johnson is a British novelist and short story writer, best known for her debut novel, Everything Under, which…
June 22, 2022
Interview with Ed Simon: “It’s all about putting one word after another.”
Ed Simon is a contributing writer for Belt Magazine, a contributing editor for the History News Network, and…
June 20, 2022
Interview with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum: “It taught me that the creative process isn’t fragile.”
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction – This Life She’s Chosen, Swimming…
June 17, 2022
Amanda Gorman’s Writing Routine: “To write I just needed a pen and a page.”
Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist, and the first person to be named National Youth Poet…
June 15, 2022
Interview with Matthew Specktor: “I’ve enjoyed writing a memoir much more than I ever would have imagined I would.”
Matthew Specktor’s books include the novels That Summertime Sound and American Dream Machine, which was long-listed for the…
June 13, 2022
Alex Michaelides’ Writing Routine: “Writing is a bit like therapy; I had stuff to work out.”
Alex Michaelides is a British-Cypriot author and screenwriter, best known for his best-selling debut novel, The Silent Patient, and…
June 8, 2022
Justin Cronin’s Writing Routine: “To write a novel is to finish one, not start one.”
Justin Cronin is an American author, best-known for his best-selling vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve…
June 1, 2022
Mary Higgins Clark’s Writing Routine: “Really, writing is my sole talent.”
Mary Higgins Clark was an American author, best-known for her mystery & suspense novels which have sold over…
May 18, 2022
Jerry Seinfeld’s Writing Routine: “It’s really the profession of writing, that’s what standup comedy is.”
Jerry Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer, best-known for creating the TV sitcom Seinfeld. He…
May 11, 2022
R. L. Stine’s Writing Routine: “I start to feel uncomfortable if I’m not writing, after like two weeks.”
R. L. Stine is an American author, best-known for writing horror fiction novels, including the books in the…
May 4, 2022
John Boyne’s Writing Routine: “I’m not quite sure what to do with days off.”
John Boyne is an Irish author, best-known for his 2006 novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which was…
April 27, 2022
Ocean Vuong’s Writing Routine: “You can’t just sit down and wing it.”
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and author, best-known for his 2019 debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly…
April 22, 2022
Salman Rushdie’s Writing Routine: “I don’t have any strange, occult practices.”
Salman Rushdie is a British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent, best-known for his novels such as Midnight’s Children and The…
April 21, 2022
Antony Beevor’s Writing Routine: “There is no excuse for not writing when it’s non-fiction.”
Sir Antony Beevor is a British military historian, who has published several popular historical works on the Second…
April 21, 2022
Maggie Shipstead’s Writing Routine: “I have to write about what fascinates and moves me.”
Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist and author of the books, Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle which was shortlisted for…
April 21, 2022
Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.”
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer, director, and producer, best-known for his best-selling romantic suspense novels, Master of the…
April 21, 2022
Graham Greene’s Writing Routine: “The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people.”
Graham Greene was an English author and journalist, best-known for his books The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The…
April 21, 2022
Marlon James’ Writing Routine: “I can’t wait on inspiration to write a novel.”
Marlon James is a Jamaican author, best-known for his novels John Crow’s Devil, The Book of Night Women, A Brief History…
April 21, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut’s Writing Routine: “It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people.”
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer, best-known for his breakthrough novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections,…
April 21, 2022
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Writing Routine: “I built my entire life around writing.”
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author, best-known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has…
April 21, 2022
Karin Slaughter’s Writing Routine: “I think ‘obsessive’ is probably the diagnosis.”
Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer, who has written 21 novels to date, which have sold more…
April 21, 2022
Joyce Carol Oates’ Writing Routine: “Be in some place where you’re not interrupted.”
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer, known for her prolific output. Over the decades, she has published…
April 21, 2022
Richard Powers’ Writing Routine: “Write or don’t write, but be there.”
Richard Powers is an American author, best-known for his novel, The Echo Maker, which won the 2006 National Book…
April 21, 2022
David Baldacci’s Writing Routine: “Nobody ever masters the art of writing.”
David Baldacci is an American author, screenwriter and former attorney, best-known for his suspense and legal thriller novels…
April 18, 2022
Ian Fleming’s Writing Routine: “If I just wait for genius to arrive from the skies, it just doesn’t arrive.”
Ian Fleming was a British author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best-known for writing the James Bond novels,…
April 18, 2022
Ben Fountain’s Writing Routine: “I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.”
Ben Fountain is an American author, best-known for his short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories, and…
April 14, 2022
Neil Gaiman’s Writing Routine: “You have permission to not write, but you don’t have permission to do anything else.”
Neil Gaiman is an English author, best-known for the comic book series, The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
April 11, 2022
Toni Morrison’s Writing Routine: “What do I need in order to release my imagination?”
Toni Morrison was an American author and editor, best-known for her novels The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; and the…
April 7, 2022
Mateo Askaripour’s Writing Routine: “I called myself a writer when I began pursuing writing seriously.”
Mateo Askaripour is a Brooklyn-based author, best-known for his bestseller, Black Buck, his satirical debut novel about a…
April 7, 2022
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing Routine: “You’re made very aware of why you write and how you write”
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer, best-known for his 1989 novel The…
April 7, 2022
John McPhee’s Writing Routine: “Time is the thing that has always favored me.”
John McPhee is an American writer, who is widely considered as one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction,…
April 7, 2022
Emily St. John Mandel’s Writing Routine: “I find the book in the revision process.”
Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian author and essayist, best-known for her novels, Station Eleven, which was adapted…
April 7, 2022
Haruki Murakami’s Writing Routine: “I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author, best-known for his novels, essays and short stories that have become best-selling…
April 7, 2022
Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.”
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician, best-known for his 2003 debut novel…
April 7, 2022
Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.”
Lee Child is a British author, best-known for his thriller novels featuring the Jack Reacher character. His first…
April 7, 2022
Stephen King’s Writing Routine: “I have a routine because I think that writing is self-hypnosis.”
Stephen King is an American author regarded as the “King of Horror,” best known for his supernatural fiction,…
April 7, 2022
Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine: “All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.”
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and essayist, as well as the recipient of numerous…
April 7, 2022
Elmore Leonard’s Writing Routine: “I’ve stayed with it for over 50 years and it’s paid off.”
Elmore Leonard was an American author, short story writer, and screenwriter, best-known for his novels in the Western,…
April 7, 2022