Mason Currey was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey's writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in Brooklyn.
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.”
Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”. . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.”
Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . .
Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).
Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.
發表於2024-06-26
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本來以為會是一本勵誌書籍,結果發現一個個作傢不是靠喝酒就是靠吸煙吸大麻汲取創作源泉?!!臣妾做不到啊! 本來以為偉人們的生活習慣一定都特彆規矩,早起早睡,結果還不是有好些人每天睡很晚一樣搞創作。 好吧的確大多數人是早起創作的。。但也不是全部啊啊親! 恩好像散步...
評分 評分 評分讀一半後感:《創作者的日常生活》 我想,“錶達欲”是存在的。就是突如其來,你會想說點什麼。 今年以來,我厭惡錶達。我討厭說話(無論是當麵還是電話),我討厭見人。我生活得像隱士。若乾年前,我被迫當過隱士。現在,在同齡人的陪伴中,我自覺扮演這個角色。魯迅在《...
評分《創作者的一天世界》, 作者是來自美國的Mason Currey (梅瑞·柯裏)。其實這本書的題目第一時間讓我想起李如一的專欄“一天世界”。不過兩者完全不一樣。 在這一本《創作者的一天世界》(英文名叫做Daily Rituals , 副標題是 How Artists Work)當中,作者收集瞭大約180位知...
圖書標籤: 時間管理 傳記 日常生活 美國 個人管理 寫作 英文原版 時間
就是最近很紅的那個 什麼 名人的24小時的 原版書。還蠻有趣的啦
評分最近什麼amazon,goodread包括大神sam harris都在推這本~
評分Quite entertaining.
評分英文版。作傢大概都有點孤獨成性
評分Quite entertaining.
Daily Rituals 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載