- Charles Dickens believed that by only sleeping facing North, this would improve his writing.
- William Faulkner drank a lot of whiskey when he was writing.
- Truman Capote wouldn’t begin or finish a piece of work on a Friday.
- Agatha Christie munched on apples in the bathtub while pondering murder plots.
- Interestingly, William Shakespeare invented the word “hurry.”
- Oscar Wilde’s, full name is ‘Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde’
- Ernest Hemingway lived through five wars, four car crashes and two air catastrophes.
- Many people mistakenly think that the Monster is named Frankenstein, when in fact he’s never given a name in the novel. Although, when Mary Shelley gave a reading of the book she referred to the Monster as “Adam”.
- Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions.
- The Irish band U2 borrowed a chapter title in the book Lord of the Flies for a name of a song.
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The Chilean author Isabel Allende starts every novel on January 8th — this stems from the day that she heard her beloved grandfather was dying (Jan. 8, 1981) and she started a letter to him, which later became her first book, “The House of the Spirits”.