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📝 John McPhee’s Writing Routine

📝 John McPhee’s Writing Routine

“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.”

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📝 Stephen King’s Writing Routine

📝 Stephen King’s Writing Routine

"20 hours a day, I live in the same reality that everybody else lives in. But for four hours a day, things change."

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📚 Interview with David Maraniss: “I try to stop writing when I know what comes next.”

📚 Interview with David Maraniss: “I try to stop writing when I know what comes next.”

Behind the scenes with David Maraniss: a look at how personal history and professional accolades merge to shape the narratives of one of America's most celebrated authors.

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📝 Paul Auster’s Writing Routine

📝 Paul Auster’s Writing Routine

"Writing is very hard, it’s very hard to write a good sentence. It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure."

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📝 Truman Capote’s Writing Routine

📝 Truman Capote’s Writing Routine

"I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy."

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📚 Interview with Mitchell Zuckoff: “I apply the lessons of Spotlight to every book I write.”

📚 Interview with Mitchell Zuckoff: “I apply the lessons of Spotlight to every book I write.”

Mitchell Zuckoff shares his journey from Pulitzer Prize finalist with the Boston Globe Spotlight Team to bestselling author, blending investigative rigor with compelling narrative nonfiction.

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📝 Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine

📝 Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine

"I write in longhand and preferably on paper with margins and thick lines with wide space between the lines."

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đź“ť Michael Lewis' Writing Routine

đź“ť Michael Lewis' Writing Routine

"I write mainly in the mornings but as the deadline approaches I write all the time. I edit in the afternoons and the evenings. I edit it in my head a lot."

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📝 Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine

📝 Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine

"You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."

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📝 Philip Roth’s Writing Routine

📝 Philip Roth’s Writing Routine

"Every sentence raises a problem, and essentially what you’re doing is connecting one sentence to the next."

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📝 Robert Caro’s Writing Routine

📝 Robert Caro’s Writing Routine

"I try to do at least three pages a day. Some days you don’t, but without some kind of quota, I think you’re fooling yourself.”

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📚 Interview with Cinnamon Janzer: “My years have more of a routine to them than my days do.”

📚 Interview with Cinnamon Janzer: “My years have more of a routine to them than my days do.”

Get an inside look at Cinnamon's life as a Minneapolis-based journalist, from her early mornings filled with writing to surfing in Mexico, in this wide-ranging conversation.

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