Ability Quote by Roger Ebert

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Juvenal

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's…

— Jennifer Egan

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you…

— Joshua Ferris

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

— Neil Diamond

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in the words…

— Jeremy Limn

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of…

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Jules Renard

I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction.…

— Katie Kitamura