Where do you find inspiration?

Truman Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood claimed he did all of his writing lying down. His first two drafts were written in longhand in pencil. The third draft would be done in bed with the typewriter balanced on his knees. He probably would have sold his soul for a laptop.

James Joyce, Irish author of Finnegans Wake and Ulysses, among other works.

Capote wasn’t the only author to write in bed. Edith Wharton, who wrote The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, preferred her bed over a desk. She would release the completed pages to drift to the floor. A secretary later collected and typed them. James Joyce, the famous Irish author, wrote in bed at night, as did Marcel Proust.

But none of these bed-writers hold a candle to Dame Edith Sitwell. She, too, began her writing by lying down, but she not on anything as ordinary as a bed or couch. She chose an open coffin as the place to gain inspiration. Reading the following poem, I think she did quite well with it. (Find the entire poem here.)
       Still Falls the Rain by Dame Edith Sitwell

Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in a basement typing room he found at UCLA where he could insert a dime into the typewriter and buy thirty minutes of typing time. Was that the precursor of the internet café? 

This fascinating video tells how he wrote the book for $9.80 in dimes.