Doe Quote by Virginia Woolf

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

— Virginia Woolf

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

It takes madness to find out madness.

— Lady Gregory

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at…

— Marya Hornbacher

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

— Anne Sexton

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye…

— Emily Dickinson

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand…

— Marguerite Duras

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the…

— Molly Haskell

Worse than madness. Sanity.

— William Golding

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

— Margaret Atwood