Courses Quote by T.C. Boyle

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it.…

— T.C. Boyle

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of…

— R. A. Salvatore

“Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.”

— Melodie Campbell

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

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

— Kathryn Lasky

“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty…

— Stanley Christopher

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all…

— Woody Allen

If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way…

— Joan Cusack

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well,…

— Donald Miller