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Can’t remember who said that writing is all about writing words on paper but as an explanation of the writing task it is hard to beat.

Here are the writing habits of a few people who manage to get words to paper in a regular and interesting fashion:

Ruth Rendell has averaged about two novels every year for most of her career. Her routine is to write every morning for five hours, and then she always eats the exact same lunch: bread, cheese, salad, and fruit. She also likes to move a lot. Since her writing career began, she's lived in 18 different houses, entirely by choice.

Graham Greene realized early in his writing career that if he wrote just 500 words a day, he would have
written several million words in just a few decades. So he developed a routine of writing for exactly two
hours every day, and he was so strict about stopping after exactly two hours that he often stopped writing
in the middle of a sentence. And at that pace, he managed to publish 26 novels, as well as numerous short
stories, plays, screenplays, memoirs, and travel books.

Paul Rudnick, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, has said: "As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."

So, writers, go ye forth and, well, write something down!