Daily Rituals - How great minds make time, find inspiration, and get to work.

Mason Currey

Picador; Main Market Ed.

2013

305 páginas

10h 10m

ISBN-13: 9781447241836

Anthony Trollope wrote three thousand words every morning before heading off to his job at the Post Office. Toulouse-Lautrec did his best work at night, sometimes even setting up his easel in brothels, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas and a bathrobe. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts – he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals examines the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.

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Pitadas de inspiração

Repleto de pequenas espiadelas na vida de artistas, escritores e cientistas, o livro encanta pelo seu amplo repertório de possibilidades. Acima de tudo, a mensagem de que cada um tem sua essência e sua própria maneira de criar, deixa um suspiro de incentivo e inspiração ao leitor.