Contagious Quote by Anonymous

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

— Anonymous

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

— E. B. White

“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

— Wole Soyinka

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured...the only solution known to science is to provide the…

— Robert Heinlein

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

— Julia Cameron

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim