#785: “Rudyard Kipling would only write when he had black ink in his pen. Beethoven poured ice water over his head when he sat down to create music, believing it stimulated his brain. Dickens wrote (and slept) facing north, aligning himself with the poles of the earth. Rossini covered himself with blankets when he composed. Proust worked in bed, and only in a soundproof room.”
True. Plausible. True. False. True.
According to Cecil Charles, his biographer, Kipling indeed preferred writing with India ink, splattering it around everywhere when he wrote.
Beethoven did dunk his head in cold water, and this is one of the many reasons why people think he became deaf.
QI says that Charles Dickens wrote and slept while facing north.
Rossini did compose in bed, but he didn’t exactly cover himself with blankets.
Due to health problems from his asthma, Marcel Proust read, wrote and ate in bed. He also soundproofed his Paris flat to block the noise from the street.
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