Amen Quote by Stephen King

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

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

— T.C. Boyle

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers…

— Stephen King

“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

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

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make…

— Leon Uris

“It would have been possible to back out of his engagements by assuming the license of the free artistic spirit, but he loathed such…

— Ian McEwan

“I used to think that words and music could change the world, but look at the people who have made it. You see their…

— Carolee Dean

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann