Book Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that,…

— Elena Ferrante

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are…

— Emma Donoghue

Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that…

— J. P. Donleavy

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them.…

— Margaret Atwood

“Depression ceases when a simple book captivates your soul.”

— K. F

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

— Susan Sontag

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so…

— Seanan McGuire