Medicine and writing are natural companions.

“Why do they spend their time with cows when they are surely the more natural companions to unicorns, griffins and dragons? The answer is…

— Diane Setterfield

“Reading is the best medicine, writing is the best cure.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love…

— Ellen Gilchrist

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out…

— Anthony Doerr

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very…

— Janet Evanovich

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as…

— Virginia Woolf

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it…

— Gertrude Stein

“How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.”

— John Updike

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face. 'Gabriel, will you you stay on with…

— Thomas Hardy

“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

— Munshi Premchand

True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his…

— Charles Lindbergh