“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” — Mason Currey Psychology Copy Share Image
“When Balzac was working, his writing schedule was brutal: He ate a light dinner at 6:00 P.M., then went to bed. At… — Mason Currey Black coffee Copy Share Image
“If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself.” — Mason Currey Art Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Mason Currey Inspiration Copy Share Image
“When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching,… — Mason Currey Children Copy Share Image
“Bourgeois told another interviewer: “I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our… — Mason Currey Daily life Copy Share Image
“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could… — Mason Currey Life Copy Share Image
“eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.” — Mason Currey Life Copy Share Image
“My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.” — Mason Currey Life Copy Share Image
“My concern at times is nothing more than establishing a series of practical considerations that will enable me to work. For years… — Mason Currey Time Copy Share Image
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the… — Mason Currey Right track Copy Share Image
“The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which… — Mason Currey Books Copy Share Image
“A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.” — Mason Currey Habits Copy Share Image
“It’s cleansing. If I hadn’t been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic.” — Mason Currey Time Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits,”… — Mason Currey Creative people Copy Share Image
“I spent two or three hours a night on it for eight years,” he said. “I gave up once and started watching… — Mason Currey Marriage Copy Share Image
“Ill at ease around most people, she had an unusually intense connection with animals—particularly cats, but also snails, which she bred at… — Mason Currey Investing Copy Share Image
“If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. To be sure all day… — Mason Currey Every day Copy Share Image
“King writes every day of the year, including his birthday and holidays, and he almost never lets himself quit before he reaches… — Mason Currey Every day Copy Share Image
