“When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.” WritingNovelDown AndGreenWarmSurfaceContactGet UpTeaPotDesksWristsUp EarlyIrritationCuffsGreen Tea Author:Ruth Ozeki
“If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.” IfsWritingDealsMorningNovelWrittenSafeComputerDistanceScriptsGet UpSchedulesEmailEmergenciesIntroductionBlogsNovel Writing Author:Neil Gaiman
“I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.” IdeasNightThreeMorningNovelGet UpVolumeColumnsParagraphNightfall Author:Don Marquis
“If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.” IfsTryingWalksNovelGet UpNails Author:D. H. Lawrence