"Life is full of distractions, and I find that the more things you add to your writing ritual, the more obstacles there are. Under ideal circumstances, I'd be in a quiet room and have nobody talk to me, but I've had to train myself to write in airport terminals, on planes, on trains, outdoors, at cafes. It's about discipline. It doesn't matter that there are a million things going on. If I have 15 minutes to myself, I'm going to try to do all the wr"
"Under ideal circumstances, I'd be in a quiet room and have nobody talk to me, but I've had to train myself to write in airport terminals, on planes, on trains, outdoors, at cafes. It's about discipline. It doesn't matter that there are a million things going on. If I have 15 minutes to myself, I'm going to try to do all the wr"
Rebecca F. Kuang sold the rights to her first novel on her twentieth birthday and has since achieved sustained commercial and critical success, with six novels reaching the New York Times bestseller list and numerous literary awards. Academic study has directly informed major works, including a trilogy modeled on the Second Sino-Japanese War conceived while studying Chinese history at Georgetown and a later novel developed during a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford and Cambridge. A recent novel, written while pursuing doctoral studies at Yale, follows two PhD students venturing into hell. Kuang maintains disciplined, adaptable creative routines, composing in airports, trains, cafes, and using short productive intervals.
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