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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works

Sometimes great art comes from weird places.

Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works

December 01, 2020

It might be a cliche that artists are kind of crazy not so deep down, but that actually might be true for some of them. Or, at any rate, it might be true that they have very weird creative habits. For example ...

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Some of Germany's greatest plays were written by a dude high on rotten — Source: The New York Times, Deutsche Welle

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Comic book art drove the writing of Captain America: Civil War. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -John Hughes wrote the first draft of Home Alone in nine days. On the — Source: Chicago Magazine

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -James Gunn created a color story for Guardians of the Galaxy 2. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Manuel Miranda wrote some of Hamilton while watching tennis matches. Tennis has — Source: Slate

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Chinatown writer Robert TOWNE took surnames for the — Source: Film School Rejects

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde was written — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Sartre wrote his magnum opus while overdosing on pills. He took a bunch of — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Nearly every line in seasons 1-4 of The West Wing was firs — Source: 5 Geniuses With Hilariously Stupid Creative Processes

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Danny Elfman composed the Batman score in an airplane bathroom. The score came to — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Frankenstein came to Mary Shelley in an opium dream. One — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Voltaire basically turned caffeine into his novel Candide. Over the fiv — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead on meth. She thought her publisher might drop her if she w — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works - The Communist Manifesto was the result of an epic booze-up. — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

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Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works - Ferris Bueller's Day Off was filmed to the sounds of the Beatles' — Source: Seventeen Magazine

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