books written under the influence

[cacian]

I start:

clockwork orange
by Anthony Burgess whilst ''high'' on opium or so they say.

[Frédéric Moreau]

I start:

clockwork orange
by Anthony Burgess whilst ''high'' on opium or so they say.

If not directly under the influence of drugs, under its experience. 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' by Thomas de Quincey and 'Artificial paradises' by Baudelaire.

[YesNo]

It is better to be under the influence of a muse of some sort when writing.

[millwallbill]

I start:

clockwork orange
by Anthony Burgess whilst ''high'' on opium or so they say.

I don`t recall reading that in Burgess`s autobiography & not sure how that story took wings. Burgess claimed that he wrote it as a catharsis or reaction after learning that his wife was gang raped by GIs during the blitz.

[Lokasenna]

I hadn't heard about Burgess and drugs either. In fact, it's quite hard to name whole novels composed whilst under the influence - if nothing else, it would mean the author having to be stoned for many hundreds, or even thousands, of hours, which seems unlikely...

Coleridge's Kublah Khan was allegedly produced in one sitting as a consequence of a fevered opium-dream, but it's generally agreed this is probably a bit of advertising on the poet's part in an attempt to make it a bit of a cause célèbre.

[readspider]

William Burroughs wrote 'Naked Lunch' whilst on heroin most likely
Charles Bukowski wrote most/all of his work as an alcoholic

[cacian]

It is better to be under the influence of a muse of some sort when writing.

could love be a muse too? :D
interesting statement what do you think that ?

[YesNo]

Yes, love could be a muse. I suspect muses are forms of love. It is probably better for a writer to be under the influence of love than under some drug, at least for the sake of the readers.