Book Quote by Pat Conroy

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

— Alfred de Vigny

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it…

— Louis L'Amour

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

— Edward Hirsch

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

— George Carlin

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

— Jules Renard