Burgess worked all day, chain-smoking small cigars and producing 1,000 words a day at a large architect’s table - a word processor for his journalism, a typewriter for the fiction...
...went home, did the kitchen, spring-cleaned the flat, wrote two book reviews, a flute concerto and a film treatment, knocked off his gardening column for , phoned in his surfing page to the , and then test-drove a kidney dialysis machine for before settling down to some serious work.
Anthony Burgess