Accepted Quote by Judy Blume

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were…

— John Lurie

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being…

— Kate DiCamillo

I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a…

— Evie Wyld

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the…

— Dario Argento

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like.…

— Min Jin Lee

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

— Robert Schwentke

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

“When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was unable to…

— Henning Mankell

When I was in my 20s, I was always sick. I was always feeling exhausted.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened…

— Luanne Rice

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I…

— Susannah Cahalan

From the age of three to six I was very sick. Being ill forced me to mature early.

— Shira Haas