This is a Summary of Mason Currey's Daily Rituals How Artists WorkFranz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, 'time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.'Kafka is one of 161 inspired-and inspiring-minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists