Bookish Diversions: How the Pros Do It

John Grisham, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Wilfred Sheed, Joan Didion, and Edgar Allan Poe

My writing routine is roughly this: Write whenever I’m not reading or my family doesn’t need me. When is that? The small hours of the morning, the wee hours of the night, and random bits of time on the weekend. Naomi’s in quiet time? Excellent, I can knock out a few paragraphs.

John Grisham on the other hand. . . “He goes to his office on his central Vi…