Persons Quote by Sean Wilentz

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

— Gloria Naylor

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

— Kathryn Harrison

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the…

— Alan Ayckbourn

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

— Joseph O'Neill

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

— Jeanette Winterson

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

— Ingrid Michaelson

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

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

— Kate Winslet