Benefits Quote by Sharon Olds

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

— Sarah Manguso

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

— Thomas Jefferson

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Benefiting from peak times to read They are the times when the brain is in its full activity and attentiveness. The daily peak times…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

— J. K. Rowling

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are…

— Emma Donoghue

I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always…

— Sarah Dessen

For me, if I didn't have reading I'd go absolutely crazy. It really helps me to unplug from the whole world, and keep my…

— Bria Vinaite

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have…

— Sargent Shriver