Routines of Writing and Running

Would-be writers...

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Riordan: What will be your legacy?

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Miles: The house. The kids can decide what to do about that.

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Riordan: Property, yes. But ideas?

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Maugham as writer

Miles: Somerset Maugham, Haruki Murakami.

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Riordan: What about them?

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Miles: They wrote. Routinely. Somerset Maugham went upstairs to his study and wrote nine to noon every day.

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Riordan: Three hours.

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Murakami on Running

Miles: And then enjoyed lunch.

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Riordan: And Haruki Murakami?

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Miles: He uses his mornings to write not less than ten pages every day. And then goes out running. Ten k’s.

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Riodan: Because?

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Miles: Partly to ward off the effects of sitting and then eating. Vocational hazard. And to create a void of privacy.

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Voice-over

Reminder to self: Start running. Today. To nurture writing routines.

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