In these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers Hattie Crisell
uncovers the mysteries of the creative process asking: Where do ideas come from? How do
stories find their shape? What happens when confidence falters or the work fails - and what
does success look like? The answers range from the thought-provoking to the hilarious. Here
we meet the novelist who makes a playlist for each manuscript the screenwriter who considers
swearing an art form the author who prefers to work in near-darkness and the confessional
writer at risk of revealing too much. Taken as a whole these inspiring interviews amount to an
insider's guide to the writing process: its disciplines and demands its ecstasies and agonies
its coffees word counts and publishing hurdles. Most of all they reveal how it really feels
to write and be read. With contributions from James Acaster André Aciman Ayobami Adebayo
Rumaan Alam Amer Anwar Mona Arshi Andrew Billen Holly Bourne Charlie Brooker Wendy Cope
Cressida Cowell John Crace Elizabeth Day Grace Dent Kit de Waal Geoff Dyer Wendy Erskine
Tor Freeman Will Harris Anna Hope John Lanchester Sophie Mackintosh Emily St. John Mandel
Meg Mason Mhairi McFarlane Liane Moriarty David Nicholls Mary Norris Graham Norton Maggie
O'Farrell Ruben Östlund Robert Popper Lucy Prebble Georgia Pritchett Kiley Reid John
Rentoul Hugo Rifkind Jon Ronson Michael Rosen Sathnam Sanghera George Saunders David
Sedaris Elif Shafak Alexandra Shulman Curtis Sittenfeld Raven Smith Will Storr Brandon
Taylor Craig Taylor Barbara Trapido Emma Jane Unsworth Robert Webb Zoe Williams Meg
Wolitzer.
