Book Quote by Ray Bradbury

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

— Virginia Woolf

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

— Petrarch

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

— Kate Winslet

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things…

— Virginia Woolf

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

— Herman Melville

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

— Maeve Binchy

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.

— Janet Evanovich

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp.

— Courtney A. Kemp