7 Habits of Highly (Rich and) Productive Authors

How Agatha Christie, Philip Roth, and five other famous writers kept crushing it while others fell off the radar

Janice Harayda
The Book Cafe
Published in
8 min readJan 14, 2024

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Anne Tyler and the cover of “French Braid”
Anne Tyler and the cover of “French Braid” / Penguin Random House

At the age of 75, when she was the world’s bestselling author, Agatha Christie still felt like an imposter.

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Janice Harayda
The Book Cafe

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.