Crazy Quote by Anonymous

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

— Anna Quindlen

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

— Paul Auster

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make…

— Leon Uris

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

— Judith Rossner

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.”

— Nevea Lane

Most of the authors are crazy and curious.

— Rakii Retondo

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and…

— Taiye Selasi

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

— Mary Jo Putney

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough