This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades…

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Thanks for reading all the way through. I hope that you enjoyed this book. As a new writer, it is hard to get started;…

— Steve the Noob

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

— Linda Bradford Raschke

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a…

— Paulo Coelho

Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey.…

— Ilona Andrews

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

— Katherine Dunn

The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself…

— Hal Clement

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person…

— Susanna Kaysen

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

— Steve Jobs

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.

— Paul Carvel

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

— Umberto Eco

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

— George Eliot