Excerpt from a Don DeLillo Interview  

Q: What are your working habits now?
A: "I work in the morning at a manual typewriter. I do about four hours and then go running. This helps me shake off one world and enter another. Trees, birds, drizzle - it's a nice kind of interlude. Then I work again, late afternoon, for two or three hours. Back into book time, which is transparent - you don't know it's passing. No snack food or coffee. No cigarettes - I stopped smoking a long time ago. The space is clear, the house is quiet. A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."