Maria Popova quotes authors on their routines. Susan Sontag started at eight and wouldn't answer the phone until noon. Simone de Beauvoir didn't write before 10 a.m. Hemingway, of course, wrote standing up. And William Gibson: "As I move through the book it becomes more demanding. At the beginning, I have a five-day workweek, and each day is roughly ten to five, with a break for lunch and a nap. At the very end, it’s a seven-day week, and it could be a twelve-hour day."
