About Quote by Sharon Olds

The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.

— James Frey

“Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue to do…

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

— Diana Trilling

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”

— Irene Tomkinson

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

— Malachy McCourt

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

— Roy Blount, Jr

If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the…

— William Duncan Silkworth

“blinds them to anything and everything that falls outside that system. What they see and feel is only what feeds their addiction or what…

— Richard Rohr

“Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not…

— Charles Jackson

Remember that alcoholism is incurable, progressive, and fatal.

— Anonymous

“I was never educated on the topic of alcoholism. I had to go through it, to understand it”

— Jim Serger