My favorite places are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection. If there’s an exhibition we want to see, Ken and I might go to it together. We don’t really have an organized activity on Sunday, usually. I’ll call up my daughter and my grandchildren and see if they want me to drop in. It’s important to know what’s going on in your own head.ĪRT IS LIFE We’ll eat lunch, maybe an omelet. I think it’s very important to translate passing feelings into words if you’re a writer. You want to have a private place where you can think about things in writing. We all have these random thoughts that are angry but they’re not finally what we think. I always have because I feel that the hand and the heart are connected. And you want to go and put down whatever you think of. When you’re writing a book, it’s all part of a piece. Before the day takes me, I try to continue what I was working on. I’ve discovered through my life, if you take the day off, it takes you two days to get back to where you were. Weekends and weekdays don’t matter to a writer. Coffee after coffee after coffee.īEFORE THE DAY TAKES ME When I’m working on a book, Sunday is like every other day. And you know, that’s it until maybe lunch time.

And sometimes he makes cappuccino for me, sometimes I make it for both of us, and we generally have some food in the house that’s been bought by the housekeeper. We basically wake up at the same time, around 8. CAPPUCCINO O’CLOCK The first thing I do is make a cappuccino for myself and Ken.

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong