This is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking hours: writing. Over the years, I’ve asked some of the writers I admire most questions like: How do you choose a project and stay with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up? How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? And how do you keep going when you fear your pages are terrible? Listen in as some of my favorite authors answer these and other questions. Please enjoy this special compilation on the craft of writing.
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Connect with Elizabeth Gilbert:
Website | Bluesky | Facebook | Instagram | Newsletter
Elizabeth’s appearances on the podcast: 770, 430
Connect with Anne Lamott:
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Anne’s appearance on the podcast: 522
Connect with Joyce Carol Oates:
X | Bluesky | Facebook | Newsletter
Joyce’s appearance on the podcast: 497
Connect with Jerry Seinfeld:
Website | X | Facebook | Instagram
Jerry’s appearance on the podcast: 485
Connect with Mary Karr:
Website | X | Bluesky | Facebook | Instagram
Mary’s appearance on the podcast: 479
Connect with Brandon Sanderson:
Website | X | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Brandon’s appearance on the podcast: 794
Connect with Seth Godin:
Website | Seth’s Blog | X | Bluesky | Facebook | Instagram
Seth’s appearances on the podcast: 792, 476, 402, 343, 177, 138
“Meditation, spirituality, and art have so much in common.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“All first drafts of any book you’ve ever read by the authors you esteem most began as unreadable first drafts.”
— Anne Lamott
“Life doesn’t have to be so overthought. You don’t have to wait to be inspired. Just start working.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
“Nobody writes all day. Shakespeare can’t write all day. It’s torture.”
— Jerry Seinfeld
“Every writer I know has written a bad book. So maybe it’s just going to be a bad book, but it’s the book that’s standing in line to be written.”
— Mary Karr
“Most people are better served by writing a certain amount every day really consistently, or at least two or three times a week, and building a novel out of good habits.”
— Brandon Sanderson
“Bad writing over time, if you do enough of it, can’t persist. Good writing will slip through. I learned this from Isaac Asimov … [who] published 400 books back when it was hard to publish a book.”
— Seth Godin
Want to hear another episode with someone who has spent a lifetime wrestling the demon of the blank page? Listen to my conversation with novelist and The War of Art author Steven Pressfield, in which we discussed overcoming “Resistance with a capital R,” the many faces of self-sabotage, his journey from blue-collar truck driver to bestselling novelist, the hero’s journey versus the artist’s journey, morning routines and a “little successes” approach, shadow careers, why the process that works for Joyce Carol Oates might be all wrong for you, fear-setting, and much more.
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