Lately, I’ve been hand-copying Moby-Dick first thing in the morning, before coffee, to carve out a space for my brain and my hands, to have a definite frame of time. I suppose I do that as others practice yoga or meditation. —Yiyun Li, Chinese-American novelist
NY Review of Books, March 2022: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/03/05/melville-before-coffee/