Alzheimer Quote by Terry Pratchett

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a…

— Charlie Pierce

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can…

— Jane Smiley

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers…

— Walter Kirn

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would…

— Linda Sue Park

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability…

— Glen Duncan

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the…

— Gavin Maxwell

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to…

— Sandra Cisneros