& Utterly fascinating& Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths & Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels Edith Sitwell worked in bed & George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas Freud worked sixteen hours a day but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes & F Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts
- he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process From Marx to Murakami & Beethoven to Bacon Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred & sixty of the greatest philosophers writers composers & artists ever to have lived Whether by amphetamines or alcohol headstand or boxing these people made time & got to work Featuring photographs of writers & artists at work & filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius & entertaining stories of the personalities behind it Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive & utterly inspiring