Being a writer, work is pretty much never-ending. You have to keep the hours of a Kwik-E-Mart. You always have to be available to your own work. Ideas don’t arrive with a 9-to-5 regularity, and I sometimes let them collect and on a weekend will answer them. I don’t like the idea of an enforced day of rest — I’ve never been big on that. I sometimes work in the afternoons on Sundays in the New York Society Library — it’s the most beautiful mansion on East 79th Street. It’s a great lending library, and it has a great writing room where a lot of writers you know work.

MEG WOLITZER