Writer Anita Desai on her writing practice, from a 2012 article, and the pain of interruption: The writing I did as an adult took place, like my childhood writing,
Like many writers, Scott Adams has a pretty strict routine that he follows when getting down to work. He describes it in a Business Insider article, and no
Raymond Chandler in a 1949 letter to Alex Barris on the discipline of writing: What do I do with myself from day to day? I write when I
Not long ago I went through a John Le Carré phase. Mainly thanks to the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie in which Gary Oldman plays George Smiley, I read the
From the Paris Review interview with author J. G. Ballard: INTERVIEWER What are your daily working habits like? BALLARD Every day, five days a week. Longhand now, it’s
From the Paris Review interview with Martin Amis: INTERVIEWER How often do you write? AMIS Every weekday. I have an office where I work. I leave the house
From the Paris Review interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer: INTERVIEWER Could you tell me something about the way you work? Do you work every day, seven days a week? SINGER Well,
From John Aubrey, A Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679: As I remember, there were others likewise did preach his doctrine. This little MS treatise grew to he
From Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (quoted by Rachel Toor in her Chronicle of Higher Ed piece on the habits of productive writers): "I was trying
Incredibly, Jonah Lehrer is only the second most unlikely person to have scored a book deal this past week. During my trip to the East Coast last week,