About Quote by Emma Donoghue

“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that,…

— Elena Ferrante

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page…

— Mary Ritter Beard

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

— J. K. Rowling

When things were not going right for me, writing was the only thing that kept my equilibrium right, it has always been a do-it…

— Aditya Dhar

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences…

— Julia Holter

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was…

— Sandra Brown

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't…

— Jens Lekman

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

— Sarah Manguso

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch