Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

"Mason Currey details the work habits of dozens of modern artists (painters, sculptors, composers, choreographers, filmmakers, scientists and writers) from Gertrude Stein to Mahler, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Freud, Jung, Proust, Erik Satie, Joyce Carol Oates, Malamud, Stephen King, Joseph Heller, Darwin and many more. When do they wake up, when do they sit down to write or chisel stone, splash paint, and when do they eat, drink, laugh, love, sleep? It’s all here — from the compulsions of Flaubert to the drug addiction of Ayn Rand — in this amazing and entertaining compendium of how geniuses apply themselves."