Famous writers’ weird habits

Famous people often seem weird when it’s about their personal life. They may let themselves do things ordinary public can’t even imagine. So when some writers were finding themselves in art images created by their own mind, they may have had troubles with coming back to the reality. Everybody needs some energizer for any work to do, especially in writing or copywriting on a freelance marketplace, and representatives of art professions are not the exclusions. But the thing is that some writers’ ways of renewing inspiration sometimes may surprise a lot.

• George Gordon Byron and Oscar Wilde

Historically in the nineteenth century writers were mostly recusants and did not accept common behavior styles. That’s why sometimes their deeds were turning into opened ignoring common rules of ethic, fashion and traditions. George Gordon Byron and Oscar Wilde (who, by the way, was charged with homosexual relationship) were really extraordinary persons and were known for their original statements, style of cloth and public activity.

•      Immanuel Kant

Famous German philosophe Immanuel Kant was placed tough requirements upon his lifestyle. He had never been married and was totally against to married people in his environment. Being a supporter of such marital approach, once Kant even fired his servant when he got to know the servant had married secretly.

•  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and philosopher, wise and educated, able to speak several languages… except native German. He hated garlic smell, dogs and people, wearing glasses. When Goethe was a director of the theatre in Weimar, once he asked to fire a duke, when some dog accidentally appeared in the theatre. He also had a phobia of draughts, that’s why he always worked in closed accommodation. But irony interfered and the author of “Faust” died because of cold.        

• Honoré de Balzac

Great French writer and founder of realism in European literature Honoré de Balzac always had not enough time for writing during a day. That’s why he worked at nights trying to become wealthy, so it leaded to aggravation. While being inspired he drank a lot of cups of coffee and changed ordinary lifestyle of his close people. Furthermore, such habit caused the situation, when one of his literary secretaries got crazy having not beard such a tough rhythm of life.

•              Edgar Allan Poe

Famous American writer and poet, one of the originators of detective literature Edgar Allan Poe created many his pieces under influence of alcohol and opium. So it’s not surprise why he had a phobia of being buried alive, acoustic and visual hallucinations. Sometimes these hallucinations were included in his pieces.

•                   Théophile Gautier

Literary critic and famous French writer Théophile Gautier was also known for criticism upon bourgeois reality. He was a supporter of romanticism and ignored all norms and traditions of bourgeois fashion in that time. He preferred romantic velvet jacket and shoes from gold leather. He also liked to carry opened umbrella in any weather.

•                 Friedrich Schiller

German poet and philosopher was inspired by… putrid apples. It’s said, his desk was full of such attributes. He also used many red curtains in his office and often submerged his kegs into ice water while writing in order to renew his energy and inspiration.

•                Charles Dickens

English writer Charles Dickens was literally a mine of various weird habits. Of then was hallucinations, so as he could talk to heroes of his pieces. But when they began to annoy him, Dickens was threatening them with absence of any other reference about them further in his pieces. Author of “Oliver Twist” was also noticed to spend a lot of time in morgues. He called it “Disgusting attractiveness”. And the last, but not the least, a doctor recommended Charles a special diet including the need to drink 0.5 liter of sparkling wine every day at 3 p.m. because of his overtiredness.

•                 Mark Twain

The real Mark Twain’s name is Samuel Clemens. His pseudonym was taken from river navigation. But this is only beginning. Twain’s coevals were astonished by quantity of tobacco the writer used to smoke – about 40 cigars per day. By the way, probably most of you heard the phrase, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know, because I’ve done it thousands of times". Guess, whose one is that? Mark Twain adored cats and they were almost everywhere in his house.

• Guy de Maupassant 

French writer Guy de Maupassant hated the Eiffel Tower despite he lived in Paris. He stated that the tower makes the capital ugly. Anyway, he preferred having lunch exactly in the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower explaining it by the fact that it was the only place where the tower could not be seen… 

            As we see, genius people may have a lot of different weird habits, but at least they may do it because of their uniqueness, talent and real necessity for the humanity. What if to start doing something weird? Perhaps, everyone can become famous too in such way. So dear writers and copywriters, what weird habits do you have?