An interesting book looking at routines is Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. “ More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrigh

An interesting book looking at routines is Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. “ More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.”