““I’ve said it’s hard. Here’s how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory’s waters drowns a little. Between chapters of Stop-Time, Frank Conroy stayed drunk for weeks. Two hours after Carolyn See finished her first draft of Dreaming, she collapsed with viral meningitis, which gave her double vision: “It was my brain’s way of saying, ‘You’ve been looking where you shouldn’t be looking.’” Martin Amis reported a suffocating enervation while working on Experience. Writing fiction, however taxing, usually left him some buoyancy at day’s end; his memoir about his father drained him. Jerry Stahl relapsed while writing about his heroin addiction in Permanent Midnight.””
![“I remember one time, back in the day, I was at his [Bill Ward] house and he said, ‘Oh, ’ello Ozzy. You’ll never guess what? I’ve just come out of a coma.’ ‘What d’you mean, a coma? That’s one stage removed from being dead. You know that, don’t you, Bill?’ ‘All I know is I went to bed on Friday…” quote by Ozzy Osbourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d4/ozzy-osbourne-685_time_i-remember-one-time-back-in-the-day-i-wa_2675220.jpg)
