They did not prevent the writers to create.
When it comes to writers, the imagination usually draws a kind of noble people, wise life. But it often happens that near the genius side by side and kind of eccentricities. This review presents unusual habits and phobias writers that ordinary people can seem strange.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo often for a long time could not finish their works. And when it came time to deliver the material to the publisher, the writer resorted to extraordinary methods. One time he cut himself half a head, and the other ordered the servant to pick up all the clothes and remained only in a sheet. That Victor Hugo did in order to not be able to leave home and work works.
Charles Dickens
Mental anguish from the imperfections of life always tormented Charles Dickens. One of the doctors diagnosed him with “overwork” and prescribed a kind of diet which the writer unquestioningly complied. On the morning of Dickens drank a Cup of cream with two tablespoons of rum. In the afternoon it was waiting for the cake with a cocktail, sherry cobbler”. In the afternoon the writer was drinking 0.5 liters of wine, the evening had to drink a raw egg in sherry. Only late in the evening, the writer allowed himself to eat the soup, beef and tea.
Edgar Allan PoE
The founder of the literature of horror Edgar Allan PoE was deathly afraid of the dark. The researchers attribute this phobia to childhood of the writer. The school where I studied, was very poor so that the children did not have textbooks. The math teacher came up to hold classes for children at the cemetery. Each student was given a gravestone, and he’s looking at years of life and death, was to calculate how many lived dead.
Leo Tolstoy
Modern doctors can only “envy” Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, so he had a strange handwriting. Disassemble it could only spouse of Sophia and, after all that she had to rewrite countless times, “War and peace”, solving additions, signs and arrows.
Psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso, looking at the handwriting of Leo Tolstoy, said Yes, that it belongs to the woman of easy virtue with a pronounced psychopathic tendencies.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway had many phobias, including a fear of public speaking. The writer does not believe in the sincerity of eulogies even the most sincere admirers.
And Hemingway loved cats. He had a lot. One writer gave the Maine Coon, who was polydactyly, i.e. with the extra toes. To date, the house-Museum of Ernest Hemingway is more than 50 animals, among them the descendants of the Maine Coon.
Honore de Balzac
Besides the fact that honoré de Balzac drank a day, an incredible amount of coffee, he still worked only at night. The writer said that the night can last indefinitely. For this he was curtained, the curtains and turned the clock hand as many times as he needed it, often confuse day with night.
