9 Authors Behaving Strangely

When we saw this post on authors behaving strangely from literatureismyutopia, we wanted to share it with you.

Nine Assorted Literary Eccentricities

1. Percy Bysshe Shelley hated cats so much he once tied a tomcat to a kite in a thunderstorm in the hopes of seeing it electrocuted.
2. Rudyard Kipling once painted his golf balls red so he could play in the snow.
3. H.G. Wells always carried two pens with him: a big one for long words, he claimed, and a smaller one for the little ones.
4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, while at parties, would often imitate a person sitting on a toilet.
5. Dorothy Parker once bought herself a new typewriter because the ribbon on her old one ran out and she didn’t know how to replace.
6. William Wordsworth once wallpapered an entire room with newspapers.

7. 

   J.M. Barrie

   always ordered Brussels sprouts but never ate them. When asked why, he replied because he loved saying the words.

8. Charles Dickens used to get so excited performing his own work on stage that he sometimes fainted.
9. Diogenes roamed the streets in broad daylight with a lantern looking for that rare thing: an honest man.

We are sure there are many more we’ve never heard of. If you have any bizarre literary behaviours to add, please comment in the section below.

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