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Culture Insider: Extraordinary writing habits of literary masters

( chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2014-10-31 07:37:48

Do you imagine writers always sitting at their desks working for hours? Definitely not. Different writers have developed diverse habits: some stand while writing, others write while looking into a mirror and some compose only a few sentences a day... Extraordinary people with unexpected ways to work. Let's take a look.

Culture Insider: Extraordinary writing habits of literary masters

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American author Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, had an odd writing habbit: he liked to write in the early morning while standing on one foot. He said this made him feel tense and he could get his thoughts on paper quickly. Although he drank a lot, he never wrote when drunk.

His works include The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

 

Culture Insider: Extraordinary writing habits of literary masters

 

Culture Insider: Extraordinary writing habits of literary masters

 

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