January 2012
17 posts
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David Lynch
For seven years in the 1980s he ate lunch at Bob’s Big Boy every day, which consisted of cup after cup of coffee and a single chocolate milkshake while scribbling notes on Bob’s napkins. He arrived at Bob’s at precisely 2:30 p.m. each day. The reason: “If you go earlier, at lunchtime, they’re making a lot of chocolate milkshakes. The mixture has to cool in a machine,...
December 2011
7 posts
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K. Silem Mohammad
Get up, shower, walk to work, buy coffee and breakfast, check email and Facebook, prep for class, teach, hold office hours, banter with colleagues in copy machine room, teach some more, answer emails, look at Facebook, go home (stop at grocery on the way), fix dinner, pour glass of wine, watch shows, talk to girlfriend, check email and Facebook, peer into chasm of own existence, recoil, lose...
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Leo Babauta (Zenhabits.net)
I wake with a cup of coffee and read. Then I write something — a blog post, a book chapter. That’s my main work for the day. Once that’s done, I take care of smaller things like email and administrative details. Then I take care of my body — I do some kind of workout. Lastly, I spend time with my family.
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Haruki Murakami
For him that means waking between 4 & 5am to write. After about 5-hours in front of the keyboard (writing or no writing) he runs 10 km. And after that he spends a couple of hours in a record shop thumbing through the jazz section for rare vinyl. Next, he has some free time for hobbies. For him it might be swimming some laps. Then it’s back to his office for a few hours of translating his...
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Ian Fleming (James Bond novels)
“In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women. In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling.” -Sebastian Faulks
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Ben Fountain
“He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job. He began his new life on a February morning—a Monday. He sat down at his kitchen table at 7:30 A.M. He made a plan. Every day, he would write until lunchtime. Then he would lie down on the floor for twenty minutes to rest his mind. Then he would return to work for...
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Tao Lin
“In the morning, he said, his meal is small, usually including iced coffee, organic fruit, or ‘green juice.’ Then he goes to New York University’s Bobst Library, where he writes for five hours, which, judging by his public web activity, includes a large amount of tweeting and Facebooking. During the rest of the time, Lin said, he’s mostly online in his apartment….I began to think, Here is someone...