About Quote by John Green

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of…

— Bernie Siegel M.D

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

— Dean Koontz

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so…

— William James

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research…

— Jill Lepore

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to…

— Andre Dubus

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the…

— Jonathan Franzen

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have…

— Hans Zinsser

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

— William Shenstone