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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 is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers. Kafka is one of 161 inspiredand inspiringminds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many self-inflicted obstacles and self-imposed daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his male configurations.
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Mason Currey was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey's first book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, was published by Knopf in 2013 and has been translated into 16 languages. A sequel, Daily Rituals: Women at Work, came out in 2019. He lives in Los Angeles.Newsletter: subtlemaneuvers.com
