Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

Book Overview

More than 150 inspired--and inspiring--novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, "time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307273601
• ISBN13: 9780307273604
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 7.5"