Peculiarities became the stock and trade for many literary greats.
Let's take a dive into some of the weirdest eccentricities of the greatest writers.
1. Edith Sitwell
This one could be just gossip, but Edith Sitwell was a formidable personality and poet. It was said that before she started her day's writing she would lie in an open coffin.
2. Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac wrote his beat classic On The Road on a single 120-foot roll of typing paper, sellotaping as he went along. Fueled by coffee and benzedrine.
3. James Joyce
With failing eyesight, and 25 ineffective operations to restore his sight. He wrote Finnegan's Wake lying on stomach across his bed, using nothing more than a huge blue pencil and a white coat to reflect the paper (according to his sister).
4. Truman Capote
Author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, never worked on a Friday, and refused to ring a friend of their number added up to 13.
5. Victor Hugo
A frequent visitor to the brothels of Paris, so with a looming deadline, he ordered his servant to hide his clothes. Leaving him stark naked, with nothing to cover him but a grey knitted shawl. He would write like the wind until he finished his novel.
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