Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
Writing is a form of licensed madness.
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
Writing is inherently scary.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.