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What Do Great Artists’ Routines Reveal?

How I Write

Could we become Beethoven simply by bathing in a bucket? Alex Aciman wonders if routine is all there is to creativity.

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About a third of the way through A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf describes the way Jane Austen wrote all of her novels. According to Woolf, Austen spent her days interrupted by visits and various obligations, and writing almost covertly—always hiding her work whenever someone came into the room....

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