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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.