Humor Quote by Kendall Hailey

“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.”

— Nevea Lane

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”

— Candace Bowen Early

“Without the opportunity to fully express herself and her creativity—without money and a room of one’s own—a woman can simply go mad.”

— Amy Gail Hansen

“I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad…

— Joan Didion

“I took out my journal. I'd been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out on the…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i write.”

— Drunk-On-Writing

“I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.”

— Fritz Leiber

“Keep writing, because you won't know who you really are until you see it staring back at you from the page.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”

— A.A. Cheshire

“I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.”

— Wendy Stanphill

“I certainly didn’t feel like writing anymore. I couldn’t explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and…

— Dick Winters