Burning Quote by Scott Lynch

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all…

— Justin Cronin

All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

— LL Cool J

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.”

— Nevea Lane

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought,…

— John Irving

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am…

— T.C. Boyle