Art Quote by David Mitchell

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that…

— Sophie Kinsella

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

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

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Anna Quindlen

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and…

— Jim Gaffigan

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might…

— Bryant A. Loney

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the…

— David Mitchell