Quote by Cornelia Funke

So what? All writers are lunatics!

— Cornelia Funke

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

— Rayne Hall

Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them…

— Cornelia Funke

“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The…

— David Mitchell

“You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my imagination making love…

— Melody Lee

“Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“All writers are insane!”

— Cornelia Funke

Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

— Anonymous

“What's this lunatic talking about!?”

— Dan Brown

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

— David Mitchell

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it…

— Jonathan Lethem