Able Quote by Tess Gerritsen

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

— Daniel Mason

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories;…

— Tess Gerritsen

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into…

— F. Sionil Jose

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing…

— Guy Kawasaki

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney