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,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.”
Dean Koontz is an American author, who has written many best-selling novels in the suspense, horror, fantasy, science-fiction…
by Famous Writing Routines 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,…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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,…
by Famous Writing Routines 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,…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines 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…
by Famous Writing Routines March 24, 2022