Business Quote by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

“In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing…

— Henry Miller

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

— Joanne Harris

Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating.

— Robert B. Weide

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

— John Barth

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and…

— Glen Duncan

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak