Madness Quote by Kate Winslet Download Open image “You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?” — Kate Winslet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madness Quills Writing
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 Copy Share Image
He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger...The hunger for an alternative, and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that, — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No man is normal without a tinge of madness in him! Madness in a person is a sign of intelligence, whoever they are. A… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image