Abusers Quote by Stephen King

“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

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do…

— 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

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

“The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But…

— Pitigrilli

“It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and…

— Ludwig Von Mises

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

— Rod Serling

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the…

— Barry Hannah

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

— Diana Trilling

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had…

— Steve Jordan

“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering, addictive, substances…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs…

— Moby