Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (29 page)

316.
Richard Wright:
Hazel Rowley,
Richard Wright: The Life and Times
(New York: Henry Holt, 2001).

317.
As Hazel Rowley details:
Ibid., 153–5.

318.
“I never intend”:
Quoted ibid., 162.

319.
H. L. Mencken:
Fred Hobson,
Mencken: A Life
(New York: Random House, 1994); Carl Bode, ed.,
The New Mencken Letters
(New York: Dial Press, 1977).

320.
“Like most men”:
H. L. Mencken to A. O. Bowden, April 12, 1932, in Bode, 262.

321.
“Looking back over”:
Quoted in Hobson, xvi–xvii.

322.
Philip Larkin:
Interview with Robert Phillips, “The Art of Poetry No. 30: Philip Larkin,”
Paris Review
, Summer 1982,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3153/the-art-of-poetry-no-30-philip-larkin
; Philip Larkin, “Aubade,” in
Collected Poems
, ed. Anthony Thwaite (1988; repr. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989).

323.
“I work all”:
Larkin., 208.

324.
“My life is”:
Interview with Phillips.

325.
“I was brought up”:
Ibid.

326.
“After that you’re”:
Ibid.

327.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ed.,
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Crowning Decade, 1949–1959
(Fresno: California State University, 1989); David V. Mollenhoff and Mary Jane Hamilton,
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).

328.
“Between 4 and 7”:
Quoted in Mollenhoff and Hamilton, 113.

329.
“Perhaps it was”:
“Olgivanna Lloyd Wright on Her Husband,” in Pfeiffer, 122.

330.
“I could not”:
Ibid.

331.
Louis I. Kahn:
Carter Wiseman,
Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2007).

332.
“Lou had so much”:
Quoted ibid., 87.

333.
George Gershwin:
Howard Pollack,
George Gershwin: His Life and Work
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

334.
“To me George
”: Quoted ibid., 175.

335.
“Like the pugilist”:
Quoted ibid.

336.
Joseph Heller:
Adam J. Sorkin, ed.,
Conversations with Joseph Heller
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993).

337.
“I spent two”:
Interview with Sam Merrill,
Playboy
, June 1975, in ibid., 163.

338.
“most intelligent”:
Quoted in Ann Waldron, “Writing Technique, Say Joseph Heller,”
Houston Chronicle
, March 2, 1975, in Sorkin, 135.

339.
“I wrote for”:
Interview with Sam Merrill,
Playboy
, June 1975, in Sorkin, 165.

340.
“I am a chronic”:
Ibid., 161.

341.
“It’s an everyday”:
Interview with Creath Thorne,
Chicago Literary Review: Book Supplement to the Chicago Maroon
, December 3, 1974, in Sorkin, 128.

342.
“I write very”:
Quoted in Curt Suplee, “Catching Up with Joseph Heller,”
Washington Post
, October 8, 1984, in Sorkin, 239.

343.
James Dickey:
Henry Hart,
James Dickey: The World as a Lie
(New York: Picador USA, 2000).

344.
“Every time I”:
Quoted ibid., 214–5.

345.
“If they said”:
Quoted ibid., 215–6.

346.
“After five and”:
Quoted ibid., 262.

347.
Nikola Tesla:
Margaret Cheney,
Tesla: Man Out of Time
(New York: Touchstone, 2001).

348.
“I’ve had many”:
Quoted ibid., 54.

349.
Glenn Gould:
Kevin Bazzana,
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); Andrew Kazdin,
Glenn Gould at Work: Creative Lying
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989); Glenn Gould in
The Life and Times of Glenn Gould
, CBC Television, March 13, 1998, accessed on April 2, 2010, at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Mm_b5lHvU&feature=related
.

350.
“most experienced hermit”:
Quoted in Bazzana, 320.

351.
“I don’t think”:
Quoted ibid., 318.

352.
“I tend to follow”:
Gould, CBC Television.

353.
“for Gould, everything”:
Kazdkin, 25.

354.
“I don’t approve of”:
Quoted in Bazzana, 322.

355.
“best playing I do”:
Quoted ibid., 326.

356.
“He was known”:
Ibid., 321.

357.
“routinely ran to”:
Ibid.

358.
fasting, he said:
Kazdin, 64.

359.
Louise Bourgeois:
Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds.,
Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923–1997
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).

360.
“My life has”:
Interview with Douglas Maxwell,
Modern Painters
, Summer 1993, in ibid., 239.

361.
“Each day is”:
Louis Bourgeois, “Tender Compulsions,”
World Art
, February 1995, in Bernadac and Obrist, 306.

362.
“I work like”:
Louise Bourgeois, “Sixty-one Questions,” 1971, in Bernadac and Obrist, 96.

363.
Chester Himes:
Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner, eds.,
Conversations with Chester Himes
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995).

364.
“I like to”:
Michel Fabre, “Chester Himes Direct,”
Hard-Boiled Dicks
, December 1983, in Fabre and Skinner, 130.

365.
Flannery O’Connor:
Brad Gooch,
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
(New York: Little, Brown, 2009).

366.
“routine is a”:
Quoted ibid., 222.

367.
“I may tear”:
Quoted ibid., 225.

368.
“I go to bed”:
Quoted ibid., 228.

369.
“I read a lot”:
Quoted ibid.

370.
William Styron:
Interview with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton, “The Art of Fiction No. 5: William Styron,”
Paris Review
, Spring 1954,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5114/the-art-of-fiction-no-5-william-styron
; James L. W. West III, ed.,
Conversations with William Styron
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985).

371.
“Let’s face it”:
Interview with Matthiessen and Plimpton.

372.
“I often have”:
Interview with James L. W. West III, “A Bibliographer’s Interview with William Styron,”
Costerus
, 1975, in West, 204.

373.
“certain visionary moments”:
Interview with Hilary Mills, “Creators on Creating: William Styron,”
Saturday Review
, September 1980, in West, 241.

374.
“I think it’s been”:
Ibid., 240.

375.
Philip Roth:
David Remnick, “Into the Clear,”
New Yorker
, May 8, 2000, 76–89; George J. Searles, ed.,
Conversations with Philip Roth
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992).

376.
“Writing isn’t hard”:
Quoted in Katharine Weber, “Life, Counterlife,”
Connecticut
, February 1987, in Searles, 218.

377.
“I write from”:
Quoted in Ronald Hayman, “Philip Roth: Should Sane Women Shy Away from Him at Parties?”
London Sunday Times Magazine
, March 22, 1981, in Searles, 118.

378.
“I live alone”:
Quoted in Remnick, 79.

379.
P. G. Wodehouse
: Herbert Warren Wind, “Chap with a Good Story to Tell,”
New Yorker
, May 15, 1971, 43–101; Robert McCrum,
Wodehouse: A Life
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004).

380.
“I seem to”:
Quoted in Wind, 45.

381.
“Wodehouse does his”:
Wind, 89.

382.
“he might snooze”:
McCrum, 405.

383.
Edith Sitwell:
Elizabeth Salter,
Edith Sitwell
(1979; repr.
London: Bloomsbury Books, 1988); Victoria Glendinning,
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981).

384.
“the only time”:
Quoted in Salter, 16.

385.
“All women should”:
Quoted ibid., 17.

386.
“I am honestly”
: Quoted in Glendinning, 204.

387.
Thomas Hobbes:
John Aubrey,
Aubrey’s Brief Lives
, ed. Oliver Lawson Dick (1949; repr. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957); Simon Critchley,
The Book of Dead Philosophers
(New York: Vintage Books, 2009).

388.
“threw himself immediately”:
Aubrey, 155.

389.
“he did believe”
: Ibid.

390.
John Milton:
John Aubrey,
Aubrey’s Brief Lives
, ed. Oliver Lawson Dick (1949; repr. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957); Helen Darbishire, ed.,
The Early Lives of Milton
(1932; repr. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965).

391.
“would complain”:
John Phillips, “The Life of Mr. John Milton,” in Darbishire, 33.

392.
René Descartes:
Jack Rochford Vrooman,
René Descartes: A Biography
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970).

393.
“Here I sleep”:
Quoted ibid., 76.

394.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
David Luke and Robert Pick, eds.,
Goethe: Conversations and Encounters
(London: Oswald Wolff, 1966).

395.
“At one time”:
Quoted ibid., 177.

396.
“My advice therefore”:
Quoted ibid., 178.

397.
Friedrich Schiller:
Heinrich Doering,
Friedrich von Schillers Leben
, in
Thomas Carlyle’s Life of Friedrich Schiller
, facsimile ed. (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1992); Bernt Von Heiseler,
Schiller
, trans. John Bednall (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962).

398.
“On his sitting”:
Doering, 111.

399.
“We have failed”:
Quoted in Von Heiseler, 103.

400.
Franz Schubert:
Otto Erich Deutsch, ed.,
Schubert: Memoirs by His Friends
, trans. Rosamond Ley and John Nowell (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1958).

401.
“used to sit down”:
Anselm Hüttenbrenner, “Fragments from the Life of the Song Composer Franz Schubert,” 1854, in ibid., 182.

402.
“Schubert never composed”:
Ibid., 183.

403.
“Schubert was extraordinarily”:
Leopold von Sonnleithner, November 1, 1857, in Deutsch, 109.

404.
Franz Liszt:
Adrian Williams,
Portrait of Liszt: By Himself and His Contemporaries
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).

405.
“He rose at four”:
Quoted ibid., 484.

406.
“To live one’s”:
Quoted ibid., 482.

407.
George Sand:
George Sand,
Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand: A Group Translation
, ed. Thelma Jurgrau (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).

408.
“If I did not”:
Ibid., 927.

409.
“It is said”:
Ibid., 928.

410.
Honoré de Balzac:
Herbert J. Hunt,
Honoré de Balzac: A Biography
(London: University of London, 1957); Graham Robb,
Balzac: A Life
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1994).

411.
“orgies of work”:
Hunt, 65.

412.
“The days melt”:
Quoted in Robb, 164.

413.
Victor Hugo:
Graham Robb,
Victor Hugo
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).

414.
“these were the days”:
Ibid., 404–5.

415.
“As soon as he”:
Quoted ibid., 406.

416.
Charles Dickens:
Peter Ackroyd,
Dickens
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990); Jane Smiley,
Charles Dickens
(New York: Viking Penguin, 2002).

417.
without certain conditions:
Ackroyd, 503, 561–2.

418.
Dickens’s working hours:
Ibid., 561.

419.
“no city clerk”:
Quoted ibid.

420.
“searching for some”:
Quoted ibid., 563.