Degrees Quote by Philip K. Dick

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

— Walter Wriston

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and…

— John Rhys-Davies

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

— John Hall Wheelock

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

— Cynthia Ozick

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are…

— Martin Amis

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

— Paul Auster

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you…

— Ron Currie Jr