Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (27 page)

104.
“was stripped of”:
Mahler, 47.

105.
“he nearly always”:
Ibid., 45.

106.
“
Its purpose was”:
Ibid., 46.

107.
“
an invalid’s diet”:
Ibid.

108.
“If his inspiration”:
Ibid., 47.

109.
“There’s such a”:
Quoted in De La Grange, 536.

110.
“You know that”:
Quoted ibid., 534.

111.
Richard Strauss:
Norman Del Mar,
Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works
, vol. 1 (1962; repr. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978).

112.
“My day’s work”:
Quoted ibid., 91.

113.
Henri Matisse:
Interview with Francis Carco, “Conversations
with Matisse,”
Die Kunst-Zeitung
, August 8, 1943, trans. and repr. in
Matisse on Art
, Jack D. Flam (1973; repr. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978), 82–90.

114.
“Basically, I enjoy”:
Quoted ibid., 85.

115.
“Do you understand”:
Quoted ibid.

116.
Joan Miró:
Lluis Permanyer,
Miró: The Life of a Passion
, trans. Paul Martin (Barcelona: Edicions de 1984, 2003).

117.
“[A]t six o’clock”:
Ibid., 105.

118.
“Merde! I absolutely”:
Quoted ibid., 107.

119.
Gertrude Stein:
Janet Flanner, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, “Tender Buttons,” The Talk of the Town,
New Yorker
, October, 13, 1934,
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1934/10/13/1934_10_13_022_TNY_CARDS_000238137
; Gertrude Stein,
Everybody’s Autobiography
(1937; repr. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1993); Janet Malcolm,
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007).

120.
“managed the practical”:
Malcolm., 28.

121.
“Miss Stein gets up”:
Flanner et al.

122.
“If you write”:
Stein, 70.

123.
“I never go”:
Ibid., 134.

124.
Ernest Hemingway:
Interview with George Plimpton, “The Art of Fiction No. 21: Ernest Hemingway,”
Paris Review
, 1958,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway
; Gregory H. Hemingway, M.D.,
Papa: A Personal Memoir
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976).

125.
“My father would”:
Hemingway, 49.

126.
“When I am”:
Interview with Plimpton.

127.
“I don’t think”:
Ibid.

128.
“so as not to”:
Ibid.

129.
“the awful responsibility”:
Quoted in Hemingway, 49.

130.
Henry Miller:
Frank L. Kersnowski and Alice Hughes, eds.,
Conversations with Henry Miller
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994).

131.
“
I don’t believe”:
Quoted in Audrey June Booth, “An Interview with Henry Miller,” 1962, in ibid., 41–2.

132.
“I know that”:
Quoted in Lionel Olay, “Meeting with Henry,”
Cavalier
, July 1963, in Kersnowski and Hughes, 70.

133.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Matthew J. Bruccoli,
Some Sort of
Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, 2nd rev. ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002); Jeffrey Meyers,
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
(New York: HarperCollins, 1994).

134.
“Stories are best”:
Quoted in Bruccoli, 109.

135.
“It has become”:
Quoted ibid., 341.

136.
William Faulkner:
Jay Parini,
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004); Stephen B. Oates,
William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist
(New York: Harper and Row, 1987); David Minter,
William Faulkner: His Life and Work
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).

137.
“always wrote when”:
Quoted in Parini, 217.

138.
“I write when”:
Quoted in Oates, 96.

139.
Arthur Miller:
Interview with Christopher Bigby, “The Art of Theater No. 2, Part 2: Arthur Miller,”
Paris Review
, Fall 1999,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/895/the-art-of-theater-no-2-part-2-arthur-miller
.

140.
Benjamin Britten:
Christopher Headington,
Britten
(London: Omnibus Press, 1996); Alan Blyth,
Remembering Britten
(London: Hutchinson, 1981).

141.
“That isn’t the way”:
Quoted in Headington, 87–8.

142.
“He could make”:
Quoted in Blyth, 22.

143.
“Functioning as a”:
Quoted ibid., 132.

144.
Ann Beattie:
Dawn Trouard, ed.,
Conversations with Ann Beattie
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007).

145.
“I really think”:
Interview with Fred Sokol,
Connecticut Quarterly
2, Summer 1980, in ibid., 24.

146.
“I really don’t”:
Ibid., 25.

147.
“I certainly am”:
Margaria Fichtner, “Author Ann Beattie Lives in the Sunshine, but Writes in, and from, the Dark,”
Miami Herald
, May 17, 1998, in Trouard, 171.

148.
Günter Grass:
Interview with Elizabeth Gaffney, “The Art of Fiction No. 124: Günter Grass,”
Paris Review
, Summer 1991,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2191/the-art-of-fiction-no-124-gunter-grass
.

149.
Tom Stoppard
: Ira Nadel,
Tom Stoppard: A Life
(New York: Palgrave, 2002).

150.
“frightened enough to”:
Quoted ibid., 93.

151.
“An inveterate”:
Ibid., 436.

152.
“intellectual inefficiency”:
Quoted ibid., 114.

153.
“I never work”:
Quoted ibid., 484.

154.
Haruki Murakami:
Interview with John Wray, “The Art of Fiction No. 182: Haruki Murakami,”
Paris Review
, Summer 2004,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fiction-no-182-haruki-murakami
; Haruki Murakami, “The Running Novelist,”
New Yorker
, June 9 & 16, 2008, 75.

155.
“I keep to”:
Interview with Wray.

156.
“Physical strength is”:
Ibid.

157.
“People are offended”:
Murakami, 75.

158.
Toni Morrison:
Interview with Claudia Brodsky Lacour and Elissa Schappell, “The Art of Fiction No. 134: Toni Morrison,”
Paris Review
, Fall 1993,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1888/the-art-of-fiction-no-134-toni-morrison
; Danille Taylor-Guthrie, ed.,
Conversations with Toni Morrison
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004).

159.
“I am not able”:
Interview with Lacour and Schappell.

160.
“It does seem”:
Interview with Mel Watkins, “Talk with Toni Morrison,”
New York Times Book Review
, September 11, 1977, in Taylor-Guthrie, 43.

161.
“I am not very”:
Interview with Lacour and Schappell.

162.
“watch the light”:
Ibid.

163.
Joyce Carol Oates:
Lee Milazzo, ed.,
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989).

164.
“I write and”:
Interview with Leif Sjoberg, “An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates,”
Contemporary Literature
, Summer 1982, in ibid., 105.

165.
“Getting the first”:
Interview with Robert Compton, “Joyce Carol Oates Keeps Punching,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 17, 1987, in Milazzo, 166.

166.
Chuck Close:
Interview with author, August 10, 2010.

167.
Francine Prose:
E-mail message to author’s agent, Megan Thompson, April 20, 2009.

168.
John Adams:
Interview with author, May 20, 2010.

169.
Steve Reich:
Interview with author, January 25, 2010.

170.
Nicholson Baker:
Interview with author, August 6, 2010.

171.
B. F. Skinner:
B. F. Skinner, “My Day,” August 9, 1963, B. F.
Skinner Basement Archives; Daniel W. Bjork,
B. F. Skinner: A Life
(New York: Basic Books, 1993).

172.
“I rise sometime”:
Skinner, “My Day.”

173.
By the time:
Bjork, 217.

174.
Margaret Mead:
Jane Howard,
Margaret Mead: A Life
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).

175.
“How dare they?”:
Quoted ibid., 287.

176.
“Empty time stretches”:
Quoted ibid., 393.

177.
Jonathan Edwards:
George M. Marsden,
Jonathan Edwards: A Life
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).

178.
“I think Christ”:
Quoted ibid., 133.

179.
“For each insight”:
Ibid., 136.

180.
Samuel Johnson:
James Boswell,
Life of Johnson
(1791; repr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Peter Martin,
Samuel Johnson: A Biography
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).

181.
“
generally went abroad”:
Quoted in Boswell, 282.

182.
“His general mode”:
Quoted ibid., 437.

183.
“My reigning sin”:
Quoted in Martin, 458–9.

184.
“idleness is a”:
Quoted in Boswell, 437.

185.
James Boswell:
James Boswell,
Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764
, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (1928; repr. New York: McGraw Hill, 1952); James Boswell,
Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763
, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw Hill, 1950).

186.
“As soon as I”:
Boswell in Holland
, 37.

187.
“vile habit of”:
Ibid.

188.
“I have thought of”:
Ibid., 198.

189.
“My affairs are”:
Boswell’s London Journal
, 183–4.

190.
“dreary as a”:
Boswell in Holland
, 210.

191.
“Everything is insipid”:
Ibid., 197.

192.
“It gives me a”:
Ibid., 45.

193.
“comforts and enlivens”:
Boswell’s London Journal
, 189.

194.
“
the dignity of”:
Boswell in Holland
, 388.

195.
“Life has much”:
Ibid., 389.

196.
Immanuel Kant:
Manfred Kuehn,
Kant: A Biography
(Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

197.
“The history of Kant’s life”:
Quoted ibid., 14.

198.
“a certain uniformity”:
Quoted ibid., 153.

199.
“
Kant had formulated”:
Ibid., 222.

200.
William James:
Robert D. Richardson,
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006); William James,
Habit
(New York: Henry Holt, 1914).

201.
“Recollect,” he wrote:
Quoted in Richardson, 121.

202.
the “great thing”:
James, 54.

203.
“make our nervous”:
Ibid.

204.
“James on habit”:
Richardson, 240.

205.
“I know a”:
Quoted ibid., 238.

206.
Henry James:
H. Montgomery Hyde,
Henry James at Home
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969).

207.
“It’s all
about
”: Quoted ibid., 152.

208.
Franz Kafka:
Franz Kafka,
Letters to Felice
, ed. Erich Heller and Jürgen Born, trans. James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth (New York: Schocken Books, 1973); Louis Begley,
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay
(New York: Atlas & Co., 2008).

209.
“single shift” system:
Begley, 29.

210.
“time is short”:
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer, November 1, 1912, in
Letters to Felice
, 21–2.

211.
James Joyce:
Richard Ellmann,
James Joyce
(1959; repr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982); John McCourt,
James Joyce: A Passionate Exile
(London: Orion, 2000).