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Successful Writers (and Their Weird Rituals That Made Them Successful)
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Ernest Hemingway
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• He likes to stand up while working his typewriter until he runs out of ideas for the story.• While The Old Man and The Sea, he would
get up at dawn, write the story until he can’t think of ideas anymore and then get drunk.
Ernest Hemingway
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Truman Capote
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• He describe himself as the “horizontal author”
• He said he can’t think, “unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy”
• Other writers practicing this weird ritual: George Orwell, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Winston Churchill and Marcel Proust
Truman Capote
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Honore de Balzac
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• He would drink vast quantities of black coffee so he could write throughout the day and night
Honore de Balzac
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Aaron Sorkin
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• He has a habit of acting his dialogues while looking at his reflection in the mirror.• Once, he broke his nose because he head-
butted a mirror in 2010 while trying to act a situation for his story.
Aaron Sorkin
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Victor Hugo
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• To avoid procrastination, he would strip off of his clothes and instruct his valet to hide all his clothing• This will prevent him from leaving his house
Victor Hugo
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Charles Dickens
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• He used to travel around Europe in the hopes of getting lost• Reason? Psychologist say that getting lost
and finding your way fosters creativity
Charles Dickens
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