Checks Quote by David Starkey

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

— Rene Russo

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

— Johan Renck

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

— Edwidge Danticat

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

— Walter Mischel

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

— Martin McDonagh

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

— Paul McCartney

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

I write about the dark and the happy.

— Hank Williams III

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

— Tim Lebbon

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy…

— Lydia M. Child