Quote by Alan Pauls

“The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores. ”

— Michael Kruger

“It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.”

— Alexandra Johnson

“I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.”

— Lauren Slater

“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the…

— Blake Crouch

“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have…

— Atul Gawande

“It was after an incident such as this that my friends and family decided something must be done. They gathered for a confabulation and,…

— Mark Forsyth

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again”

— Gayle Forman

“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“you are a narcissist. That is the raison dêtre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's very interesting.…

— Anaïs Nin

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey