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Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest…

— Anthony Doerr

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so…

— Charles M. Blow

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books…

— Jane Goldman

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

— Mark Pellegrino

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…

— Ben Fountain

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another…

— Mario Batali

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg