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
Paul Auster’s Writing Routine: “It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure.”
Paul Auster is an American writer and film director, best-known for the The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace,…
April 7, 2022
Truman Capote’s Writing Routine: “Intelligence alone can’t make a good writer.”
Truman Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor, best-known for his literary classics, the novella Breakfast…
April 7, 2022
Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine: “All you have to do is write one true sentence.”
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, best-known for his many works such as For…
April 7, 2022
Michae Lewis’ Writing Routine: “I couldn’t imagine wanting to do anything else for a living”
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist, best-known for his books Moneyball: The Art of Winning…
April 7, 2022
Philip Roth’s Writing Routine: “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.”
Philip Roth was an American novelist and short story writer, best-known for his book, Goodbye, Columbus, and the Pulitzer…
April 5, 2022
Robert Caro’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know how good a writer I am. But I’m a very good interviewer.”
Robert Caro is an American journalist and author best-known for The Power Broker, a biography of New York…
April 1, 2022
Maya Angelou’s Writing Routine: “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, widely regarded for her seven autobiographies, three…
March 30, 2022
Dan Brown’s Writing Routine: “Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.”
Dan Brown is an American author best known for his best-selling thriller novels, featuring the Robert Langdon character; Angels…
March 27, 2022
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Writing Routine: “I got to that point by writing a lot, reading a lot, and enduring a lot.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist, best-known for his 2016 debut novel, The Sympathizer, which won the Pulitzer…
March 27, 2022
Michael Connelly’s Writing Routine: “Writing is all about finding momentum and keeping it.”
Michael Connelly is an American author best-known for his detective and crime fiction novels featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus…
March 25, 2022
Barack Obama’s Writing Routine: “Because nothing is more terrifying than the blank page.”
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and is the author…
March 25, 2022
John Grisham’s Writing Routine: “Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.”
John Grisham is an American author and lawyer best known for his best-selling legal thrillers: A Time to Kill, The…
March 25, 2022
Jessica Bruder’s Writing Routine: “My best story ideas are the kind that have haunted me with questions each night.”
Jessica Bruder is an American journalist and author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which was adapted…
March 25, 2022
Ann Patchett’s Writing Routine: “Starting a novel isn’t so different from starting a marriage.”
Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel…
March 24, 2022