Communication Quote by Alan Ayckbourn

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

— Kathryn Harrison

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

— Margaret Anderson

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

— John Updike

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

— Sean Wilentz

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

— Kate Winslet

“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake…

— Patricia Hickman

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson