The Fascinating Writing Habits of 31 Famous Authors

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Most of us sit down in front of a desk and write. We may have quirks and rituals involving coffee, writing tools, and writing spaces. However, some famous writers had distinct and strange writing habits.

The Fascinating Writing Habits of 31 Famous Authors

 Mark Twain

Writers Who Lay Down (when they wrote)

1. Calvin
2. Edith Sitwell (who wrote lying down in an open coffin)
3. Marcel Proust
4. Mark Twain
5. Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Truman Capote
7. Voltaire

 Ernest Hemingway

Writers Who Stood (when they wrote)

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Lewis Carroll
3. Philip Roth
4. Thomas Wolfe
5. Virginia Woolf
6. Vladimir Nabokov
7. Winston Churchill

Writers Who Wrote In The Bath

1. Agatha Christie
2. Benjamin Franklin
3. D.H. Lawrence
4. Edmond Rostand
5. Victor Hugo

 H.L. Mencken

Writers Who Smoked Cigars (when they wrote)

1. Amy Lowell
2. George Sand
3. H L Mencken
4. Mark Twain
5. Rudyard Kipling

 William Wordsworth Literary Walk

Writers Who Had To Take Long Walks (before they wrote)

1. Carl Sandburg (20 miles a day)
2. Charles Dickens (20-30 miles a day)
3. Henry David Thoreau
4. Isaac Bashevis Singer
5. John Clare
6. Wallace Stevens
7. William Wordsworth

What are your writing habits?

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 by Amanda Patterson

© Amanda Patterson

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