Book Quote by Karen Russell

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

“Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the…

— Karen Russell

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond…

— Djuna Barnes

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those…

— Jon Ronson

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

— William Shakespeare

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm, then there…

— Bianca Stone

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand…

— Marguerite Duras

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Madness breeds madness.

— Dan Brown