Literature Madness Quotes

#1. I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

Louise DeSalvo

#2. The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through ... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. Stay cognizant of the belief that you will live the lives of those you encounter.

Bud Clark

#4. It's not what happens to people on the page; it's about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.

Gordon Lish

#5. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

#6. I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.

Cat Zingano

#8. It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.

David Foster Wallace

#9. Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Francois Fenelon

#10. There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hannah Arendt

#11. With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always comes after a satisfactory quarrel.

William Maxwell

#12. To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

Philip Sington

#13. In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Virgil

#14. If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

Vinoba Bhave

#15. We're all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I'm concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Roman Payne

#17. I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

Taylor Lautner

#18. I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

William Empson

#19. I admitted I was afraid of the very idea, as afraid as a mortal might have been of designing offspring genetically to enter certain branches of the arts or certain professions.

Anne Rice