Where Writers Write

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Writers are famous for their meticulous routines and tendencies – and it has taken some pretty eccentric rituals to inspire our best-loved novels. Take Victor Hugo who placed himself under house arrest to write The Hunchback of Notre Dame, locking away his clothes to avoid the temptation to go outside and allowing himself only a large grey shawl to write in. Dame Edith Sitwell chose to climb into an open coffin and lie down before she began writing while Truman Capote would not begin or end…