Brooding Quote by Dave Barry

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

— Greg van Eekhout

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my…

— W. E. B. Griffin

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel,…

— Henry Rollins

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor…

— Jasper Fforde

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

— Lisa Unger

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but…

— Erik Larson

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers…

— A.L. Kennedy

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster