Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (30 page)

421.
“he looked the”:
Smiley, 23.

422.
Charles Darwin:
Francis Darwin, ed.,
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
, vol. 1 (New York: Basic Books, 1959); “Charles Darwin,”
Encyclopœdia Britannica
, 2009,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151902/Charles-Darwin
.

423.
the “extreme edge”:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
.

424.
“like confessing”:
Ibid.

425.
a quiet, monkish life:
Darwin, 87–136.

426.
“I’ve
done a”:
Quoted ibid., 91.

427.
“became extremely animated”:
Ibid., 101.

428.
“kind of restrained”:
Ibid., 121.

429.
Herman Melville:
Herman Melville,
Correspondence: The
Writings of Herman Melville
, vol. 14, ed. Lynn Horth (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1993).

430.
“I rise at eight”:
Herman Melville to Evert Duyckinck, December 13, 1850, in
Correspondence
, 174.

431.
“I have a sort”:
Ibid., 173.

432.
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Malcolm Cowley, ed.,
The Portable Hawthorne
, rev. ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1969); Randall Stewart,
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography
, (1948; repr. North Haven, CT: Archon Books, 1970).

433.
“As the years”:
Cowley, 2.

434.
“I religiously seclude”:
Quoted in Stewart, 112.

435.
Leo Tolstoy:
Leo Tolstoy,
Tolstoy’s Diaries
, ed. and trans. R. F. Christian (London: Flamingo, 1994); Sergei Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered by His Son
, trans. Moura Budberg (New York: Atheneum, 1962); Tatyana Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered
, trans. Derek Coltman (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977).

436.
“I must write”:
Diaries
, 166.

437.
“From September”:
Sergei Tolstoy, 53–4.

438.
account by Tolstoy’s daughter:
Tatyana Tolstoy, 20.

439.
“At five we”:
Sergei Tolstoy, 55.

440.
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky:
David Brown,
Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music
(New York: Pegasus Books, 2007); David Brown,
Tchaikovsky: The Final Years:
1855–1893, (vol. 4) (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991).

441.
“What a joy”:
Quoted in
The Man and His Music
, 284.

442.
“was not only pleasure”:
Quoted in
The Final Years
, 19.

443.
“Before setting about”:
Quoted ibid., 21.

444.
“Somewhere at sometime”:
Quoted ibid.

445.
“The seed of a”:
Quoted in
The Man and His Music
, 207.

446.
“always found himself”:
Quoted in
The Final Years
, 22.

447.
Mark Twain:
Albert Bigelow Paine,
Mark Twain
, vol. 1 (1912; repr. New York: Chelsea House, 1997); William Dean Howells,
My Mark Twain
, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910; Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1997).

448.
“On hot days”:
Quoted in Paine, 509.

449.
“the whole house”:
Howells, 45.

450.
“In those days”:
Ibid., 38–9.

451.
Alexander Graham Bell:
Charlotte Gray,
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
(New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006).

452.
“It is hard work”:
Quoted ibid., 177.

453.
“I have my periods”:
Quoted ibid., 204.

454.
“I wonder do you”:
Quoted ibid., 265.

455.
Vincent van Gogh:
Vincent van Gogh,
The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh
, 3rd ed., vol. 3 (Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2000).

456.
“Today again from”:
Ibid., 48.

457.
“in a dumb fury”:
Ibid., 203.

458.
“Our days pass”:
Ibid., 101.

459.
N. C. Wyeth:
David Michaelis,
N. C. Wyeth: A Biography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).

460.
“fortified by grapefruit”:
Ibid., 293.

461.
“It’s the hardest”:
Quoted ibid., 294.

462.
Georgia O’Keeffe:
John Loengard,
Georgia O’Keeffe at Ghost Ranch: A Photo Essay
(New York: Steward, Tabori and Chang, 1995); Lisa Mintz Messinger,
Georgia O’Keeffe
(London: Thames and Hudson, 2001); C. S. Merrill,
O’Keeffe: Days in a Life
(New Mexico: La Alameda Press, 1995).

463.
“I like to”:
Quoted in Loengard, 8.

464.
a typical meal:
Merrill, 23.

465.
“On the other”:
Quoted in Messinger, 182.

466.
“When I think”:
Quoted ibid.

467.
Sergey Rachmaninoff:
Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda,
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music
(New York: New York University Press, 1956).

468.
“Some pianists say”:
Quoted ibid., 295.

469.
“today I worked”:
Quoted ibid., 136.

470.
Vladimir Nabokov:
Vladimir Nabokov,
Strong Opinions
(1973; repr. New York: Vintage International, 1990); Vladimir Nabokov, “Nabokov on Nabokov and Things,”
New York Times
, May 12, 1968,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-v-things.html
.

471.
“I generally start”:
Interview with Alvin Toffler,
Playboy
, 1963, in
Strong Opinions
, 29.

472.
“I awake around”:
Ibid., 28–9.

473.
“My habits are simple”:
Interview with Allene Talmey,
Vogue
, 1969, in
Strong Opinions
, 157.

474.
“soccer matches”:
Interview with Kurt Hoffman in
Strong Opinions
, 191.

475.
“I sleep even worse”:
“Nabokov on Nabokov and Things.”

476.
Balthus:
Balthus with Alain Vircondelet,
Vanished Splendors: A Memoir
, trans. Benjamin Ivry (New York: Ecco, 2002); Nicholas Fox Weber,
Balthus: A Biography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).

477.
“This is the”:
Balthus with Vircondelet, 3.

478.
“I’ve always painted”:
Ibid., 147.

479.
Le Corbusier:
Nicholas Fox Weber,
Le Corbusier: A Life
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008); Jerzy Soltan, “Working with Le Corbusier,”
http://www.archsociety.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.24
.

480.
“The process of”:
Soltan.

481.
Buckminster Fuller:
J. Baldwin,
BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today
(New York: Wiley, 1996); Elizabeth Kolbert, “Dymaxion Man,”
New Yorker
, June 9, 2008,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert
.

482.
“A series of trials”:
Baldwin, 66.

483.
“disconcerted observers”:
Ibid.

484.
Paul Erdos:
Paul Hoffman,
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
(New York: Hyperion, 1998).

485.
“he only needed”:
Quoted ibid., 256.

486.
“You’ve showed me
”: Quoted ibid., 16.

487.
“A mathematician”:
Quoted ibid., 7.

488.
Andy Warhol:
Pat Hackett, introduction to
The Andy Warhol Diaries
(New York: Warner Books, 1989).

489.
“Keeping to his”:
Hackett, xv–xvi.

490.
Edward Abbey:
David Petersen, ed.,
Postcards from Ed: The Collected Correspondence of Edward Abbey, 1949–1989
(Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 2006).

491.
“When I’m writing”:
Edward Abbey to Morton Kamins, December 14, 1981, in ibid., 107–8.

492.
“I hate commitments”:
Edward Abbey to David Petersen, July 25, 1988, in Petersen, 152.

493.
V. S. Pritchett
: Jeremy Treglown,
V. S. Pritchett: A Working Life
(New York: Random House, 2004);
Complete Collected Essays
(New York: Random House, 1991).

494.
“Pritchett was a”:
Treglown, 3.

495.
“clocked on”:
Quoted ibid., 203.

496.
Edmund Wilson:
Lewis M. Dabney,
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005); Jeffrey Meyers,
Edmund Wilson: A Biography
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995); Louis Menand, “Missionary,”
New Yorker
, August 8, 2005,
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/08/050808crat_atlarge
.

497.
“Wilson was the”:
Dabney, 4.

498.
“at the Princeton club”:
Quoted in Meyers, 48–9.

499.
“You have to set”:
Quoted ibid., 77.

500.
“To write what”:
Quoted in Menand.

501.
John Updike:
Interview with Zvonimir Radeljkovic and Omer Hadziselimovic,
Knjizevna Smotra
, 1979, at
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/10/american-centaur-an-interview-with-john-updike.html
; interview with Charles Thomas Samuels, “The Art of Fiction No. 43: John Updike,”
Paris Review
, Winter 1968,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4219/the-art-of-fiction-no-43-john-updike
; John Updike, introduction to
The Early Stories: 1953–1975
(2003; repr. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004); interview with the Academy of Achievement, June 12, 2004,
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0int-1
.

502.
“I would write”:
Interview with Samuels.

503.
“Around noon the”:
Updike, xvii.

504.
“I try to”:
Interview with Radeljkovic and Hadziselimovic.

505.
A solid routine:
Interview with the Academy of Achievement.

506.
Albert Einstein:
Ronald W. Clark,
Einstein: His Life and Times
(1971; repr. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007).

507.
“Einstein would pose”:
Quoted ibid., 746.

508.
L. Frank Baum:
Katharine M. Rogers,
L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002).

509.
“My characters just”:
Quoted ibid., 179.

510.
Knut Hamsun:
Ingar Sletten Kolloen,
Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter
, trans. Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009).

511.
“A great deal”:
Quoted ibid., 127–8.

512.
Willa Cather:
L. Brent Bohlke, ed.,
Willa Cather in Person
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986).

513.
“I work from two”:
Latrobe Carroll, “Miss Cather” in Bohlke, 23–4.

514.
Ayn Rand:
Anne C. Heller,
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
(New York: Nan A. Talese, 2009); Mary Ann Sures, “Working for Ayn Rand,” in Mary Ann Sures and Charles Sures,
Facets of Ayn Rand
, Ayn Rand Institute,
http://facetsofaynrand.com/book/chap1-working_for_ayn_rand.html
.

515.
According to the:
Heller, 147.

516.
“She was very”:
Sures.

517.
George Orwell:
D. J. Taylor,
Orwell: The Life
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003).

518.
Waking at 7:00:
Ibid., 148.

519.
Bachelor Griller:
Ibid., 155.

520.
James T. Farrell:
Robert K. Landers,
An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004).

521.
“needed someone to”:
Quoted ibid., 405.

522.
Jackson Pollock:
Deborah Solomon,
Jackson Pollock: A Biography
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987); “Unframed Space,” The Talk of the Town,
New Yorker
, August 5, 1950, 16.

523.
“I’ve got the”:
“Unframed Space.”

524.
Carson McCullers:
Josyane Savigneau,
Carson McCullers: A Life
, trans. Joan E. Howard (1995; repr. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001); Virginia Spencer Carr,
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975); Carson McCullers,
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
, ed. Carlos L. Dews (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).