Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (28 page)

212.
“A man of”:
Quoted in Ellmann, 6.

213.
“the mind is”:
Quoted ibid., 308.

214.
“He woke about”:
Ibid.

215.
“No,” he replied:
Quoted in McCourt, 73.

216.
“diversified,” as he put it:
Quoted ibid., 91.

217.
“I calculate that”:
Quoted in Ellmann, 510.

218.
Marcel Proust:
Celeste Albaret and Georges Belmont,
Monsieur Proust
, trans. Barbara Bray (1973; repr. New York: New York Review Books, 2001); Ronald Hayman,
Proust: A Biography
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990); Marcel Proust,
In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained
, trans. Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D. J. Enright (New York: Modern Library, 1993).

219.
“It is truly”:
Quoted in Hayman, 346.

220.
“It isn’t an”:
Albaret and Belmont, 70.

221.
“After ten pages”:
Quoted in Hayman, 251.

222.
“You’re putting your”:
Quoted ibid., 331.

223.
“it almost seems”:
Proust, 318.

224.
Samuel Beckett:
Paul Strathern,
Beckett in 90 Minutes
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005); Deirdre Bair,
Samuel Beckett: A Biography
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978).

225.
“It was spent”:
Strathern, 45–6.

226.
“dark he had”:
Ludovic Janvier quoted in Bair, 351.

227.
“I shall always”:
Quoted in Bair, 352.

228.
Igor Stravinsky:
Stephen Walsh,
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882–1934
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999); Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft,
Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978).

229.
“I get up at”:
Quoted in Walsh, 419.

230.
“I have never”:
Quoted ibid., 115.

231.
“
rests the head”:
Quoted in Stravinsky and Craft, 298.

232.
Erik Satie:
Robert Orledge,
Satie Remembered
(Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995).

233.
“
walked slowly”:
Quoted ibid., 69.

234.
“
the possibility of”:
Quoted ibid.

235.
Pablo Picasso:
John Richardson,
A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907–1916
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007); Francoise Gilo and Carlton Lake,
Life with Picasso
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1964).

236.
“After the shabby”:
Richardson, 43.

237.
“He rarely spoke”:
Quoted ibid., 147.

238.
“the artist veered”:
Ibid., 146.

239.
“That’s why painters”:
Quoted in Gilo and Lake, 116.

240.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
Annie Cohen-Solal,
Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
, trans. Anna Cancogni, ed. Norman Macafee (1985; repr. New York: Dial Press, 2005); Deirdre Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
(New York: Touchstone, 1990).

241.
“
One can be”:
Quoted in Cohen-Solal, 286.

242.
“His diet over”:
Ibid., 374.

243.
“I thought that”:
Quoted ibid., 374–5.

244.
T. S. Eliot
: James E. Miller Jr.,
T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888–1922
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005); Allen Tate, ed.,
T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1966); Lyndall Gordon,
T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1999).

245.
“I am sojourning”:
Quoted in Miller, 325.

246.
“a figure stooping”:
Quoted in Tate, 3–4.

247.
“I am now”:
Quoted in Miller, 278.

248.
“the prospect of”:
Quoted in Gordon, 197.

249.
Dmitry Shostakovich:
Laurel E. Fay,
Shostakovich: A Life
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Elizabeth Wilson,
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).

250.
“
I always found”:
Quoted in Fay, 46.

251.
“appeared to be”:
Quoted in Wilson, 194.

252.
“I discovered him”:
Quoted ibid., 197.

253.
“He would play”:
Quoted ibid.

254.
“I worry about”:
Quoted ibid., 196.

255.
Henry Green:
Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(New York: Random House, 2000); interview with Terry Southern, “The Art of Fiction No. 22: Henry Green,”
Paris Review
, Summer 1958,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4800/the-art-of-fiction-no-22-henry-green
.

256.
“Though he occasionally”:
Treglown, 95.

257.
“Yes, yes, oh yes”:
Interview with Southern.

258.
Agatha Christie:
Agatha Christie,
An Autobiography
(New York: HarperCollins, 1977).

259.
“The funny thing”:
Ibid., 431.

260.
“All I needed”:
Ibid., 432.

261.
“Many friends have”:
Ibid.

262.
Somerset Maugham:
Jeffrey Meyers,
Somerset Maugham: A Life
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).

263.
“Maugham thought that”:
Ibid., 37.

264.
“When you’re writing”:
Quoted ibid., 37–8.

265.
Graham Greene:
Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Two: 1939–1955
(New York, Viking: 1994); Henry J. Donaghy, ed.,
Conversations with Graham Greene
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992).

266.
“a nine-till-five”:
Christopher Burstall, “Graham Greene Takes the Orient Express,”
The Listener
, November 21, 1969, in Donaghy, 60–1.

267.
Joseph Cornell:
Deborah Solomon,
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).

268.
Sylvia Plath:
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962
, ed. Karen V. Kukil (New York: Anchor Books, 2000); Janet Malcolm,
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
(1993; repr. New York: Vintage Books, 1995).

269.
“From now on”:
Sylvia Plath, December 7, 1959, in
Journals
, 457.

270.
She was using:
Malcolm, 61.

271.
“I am a genius”:
Quoted ibid., 61–2.

272.
John Cheever:
Blake Bailey,
Cheever: A Life
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009); John Cheever,
The Journals of John Cheever
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).

273.
“When I was younger”:
Quoted in Bailey, 92–3.

274.
“Almost every morning”:
Ibid., 137.

275.
“achieve some equilibrium”:
Cheever, 22–3.

276.
“The hours between”:
Ibid., 277–8.

277.
“the horniest man”:
Quoted in Bailey, 422.

278.
“two or three orgasms”:
Quoted ibid., 433.

279.
“With a stiff prick”:
Quoted ibid., 568.

280.
“I must convince”:
Cheever, 255.

281.
Louis Armstrong:
Terry Teachout,
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).

282.
described by Terry Teachout:
Ibid., 288–93.

283.
“It’s been hard”:
Quoted ibid., 371.

284.
W. B. Yeats
: Warwick Gould, John Kelly, and Deirdre Toomey, eds.,
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume 2, 1896–1900
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997); R. F. Foster,
W. B. Yeats: A Life, I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); Peter Kuch,
Yeats and A.E.: “The Antagonism That Unites Dear Friends”
(Totawa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1986).

285.
“I read from”:
W. B. Yeats to Edwin Ellis, August 16, 1912, quoted in Foster, 468.

286.
According to another:
Kuch, 14.

287.
“Every change upsets”:
W. B. Yeats to J. B. Yeats, November 1, 1898, in Gould et al., 282.

288.
“I am a very”:
W. B. Yeats to William D. Fitts, August 19, 1899, in Gould et al., 439.

289.
“One has to give”:
W. B. Yeats to Robert Bridges, June 6, 1897, in Gould et al., 111.

290.
Wallace Stevens:
Peter Brazeau,
Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered
(New York: Random House, 1983); Milton J. Bates,
Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985).

291.
“I find that”:
Quoted in Bates, 157.

292.
Kingsley Amis:
Interview with Michael Barber, “The Art of Fiction No. 59: Kingsley Amis,”
Paris Review
, Winter 1975,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3772/the-art-of-fiction-no-59-kingsley-amis
; Eric Jacobs,
Kingsley Amis: A Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995).

293.
“Yes. I don’t”:
Interview with Barber.

294.
Amis’s routine shifted:
Jacobs, 1–18.

295.
Martin Amis:
Interview with Francesca Riviere, “The Art of Fiction No. 151: Martin Amis,”
Paris Review
, Spring 1998,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1156/the-art-of-fiction-no-151-martin-amis
.

296.
Umberto Eco:
Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, “The Art of Fiction No. 197: Umberto Eco,”
Paris Review
, Summer 2008,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco
.

297.
Woody Allen:
Eric Lax,
Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).

298.
“obsessive thinking”:
Ibid., 119.

299.
“I’ve found over”:
Ibid., 78.

300.
“I think in the”:
Ibid., 117.

301.
David Lynch:
Richard A. Barney, ed.,
David Lynch: Interviews
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009); David Lynch,
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
(2006; repr. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007).

302.
“I like things”:
Quoted in Richard B. Woodward, “A Dark Lens on America,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 14, 1990, in Barney, 50.

303.
“I have never”:
Lynch, 5.

304.
“We waste so”:
Ibid., 55.

305.
Maya Angelou:
Jeffrey M. Elliot, ed.,
Conversations with Maya Angelou
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989).

306.
“I try to keep”:
Interview with Walter Blum, “Listening to Maya Angelou,”
California Living
, December 14, 1975, in Elliot, 153.

307.
“I usually get”:
Interview with Claudia Tate,
Black Women Writers at Work
(New York: Continuum, 1983), in Elliot, 40.

308.
“I have always”:
Quoted in Judith Rich, “Life Is for Living,”
Westways
, September 1987, in Elliot., 79.

309.
George Balanchine:
Mason Francis, ed.,
I Remember Balanchine: Recollections of the Ballet Master by Those Who Knew Him
(New York: Doubleday, 1991); Bernard Taper,
Balanchine: A Biography
(1984; repr. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996).

310.
“When I’m ironing”:
Quoted in Francis, 418.

311.
“My muse must”:
Quoted in Taper, 13.

312.
Al Hirschfeld:
Al Hirschfeld,
Hirschfeld On Line
(New York: Applause Books, 1999).

313.
“In his 90s”:
Mel Gussow, introduction to ibid., 18.

314.
“Very often, when”:
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, “Looking Over His Shoulder,” in Hirschfeld, 24.

315.
Truman Capote:
Interview with Pati Hill, “The Art of Fiction No. 17: Truman Capote,”
Paris Review
, Spring–Summer 1957,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4867/the-art-of-fiction-no-17-truman-capote
.