Via John Naughton, an extract from the Guardian's obituary of novelist William Styron:
Styron wrote his books in longhand using a No2 pencil on yellow lined paper. A good day’s work might see him complete two or three pages of manuscript. A quotation from Flaubert was displayed in his study: "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work".