>I’m ruled by my biological clock, which mandates one unshakeable conclusion: nothing of value is ever achieved in the morning. Typically I get up late and spend a couple of hours moving from a comatose state into something resembling human life. Then I’ll start work about 1 or 2 in the afternoon.

As a grad student I used to do this. But as a writer I found it impossible to actually live, write and work this way. Turns out that your body clock can change and that getting up decently early does help.

>I don’t believe in writer’s block. I think it’s a self-indulgent too-precious mystification of what is, after all, a job like anyone else’s. Do nurses get nurse’s block?

On this I agree and disagree. Nurses and other caring professionals get "empathy fatigue". Writers block is a kind of burnout. It is avoidable and it is fixable but it is also a thing.