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Jump to full article: Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. (blog), 2009-03-11
Author: R.B. Freeman, accessed on
Intro: Winston Churchill . . .
At 1:00 p.m. he joined guests and family for a three-course lunch. Clementine drank claret, Winston champagne, preferable Pol Roger served at a specific temperature, port brandy and cigars.
Will Self … . .
Rituals. Smoking--pipes, cigars, special brands, accessories, the whole bollocks.
C.S. Lewis … . .
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. . . . talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned.
Stefan Sagmeister … . .
After enjoying a giant pot of coffee and a medium-sized cigar for breakfast, I start my daily schedule of little experiments.
Gustave Flaubert … . .
His valet, Narcisse, straightaway brought him water, filled his pipe, drew the curtains, and delivered the morning mail. Conversation with Mother, which took place in clouds of tobacco smoke particularly noxious to the migraine sufferer, preceded a very hot bath and a long, careful toilette
Charles Darwin … . .
3 p.m. Rested in his bedroom on the sofa and smoked a cigarette, listened to a novel or other light literature read by ED [Emma Darwin, his wife].
Truman Capote … . . I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Willem de Kooning … . .
Work was punctuated by more cups of strong coffee . . . and by many cigarettes.
P.G. Wodehouse . . . Then he would light the first pipe of the day, crumbling the cigars Peter Schwed sent him into the bowl in preference to pipe tobacco.
Immanuel Kant … . .
With that, he smoked a pipe of tobacco. The time he needed for smoking it "was devoted to meditation." Apparently, Kant had formulated the maxim for himself that he would smoke only one pipe, but it is reported that the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on. . . .
Karl Marx . . . this was followed by long hours of work at night, accompanied by ceaseless smoking, which from a luxury had become an indispensable anodyne; this affected his health permanently . . .
William Styron … . .
and stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning, drinking and reading and smoking and listening to music.
Kingsley Amis … . .
Then I emerge, and nicotine and alcohol are produced.
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