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“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Should Writing Mind Lying Disease Philosophical Hypothesis

Book:The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”

Writing My Own Grief Disease Majors Losing Decided Affected Refuge Mobility

Author:Tara Brach

“I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.”

Writing Book Suffering Disease Finished Ashamed Writing A Book

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

“He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: An essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by A. Murphy] Poems.- v. 2-4. The rambler.- v. 5. The idler. History of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.- v. 6-8. The lives of the English poets.- v. 9. Lives of eminent persons. Letters, selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and others. Prayers and meditations.- v. 10. Philological tracts, &c.- v. 11. Miscellaneous tracts, &c. Dedications. Reviews and criticisms. Tales of imagination. The adventurers.-

“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.”

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.”

Ifs Knows Writing Disease Madness Honey

Author:Faith Sullivan

“As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.”

Ifs Knows Writing Matter Happens Plans Disease Patient Cures Excellent Explanation Explaining Psychoanalysis Craze

Book:The Critical Shaw: On Literature

Source: The Critical Shaw: On Literature

“I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.”

Men Writing Turns Names Disease Glory Sentences Great Men Sickness Spells Portions Commodity Tribes Grammar Crave Barbarians

Author:John Quincy Adams

“I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.”

Ifs Writing I Can Imagine Disease Died Loved Ones Insensitive

Author:Joel Stein

“What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.”

Writing Hero Disease Protected Neurosis My Hero

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.”

Ifs Writing Form Difficult Disease Glasses Bugs Examining

Author:Gene Tierney

“The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.”

Writing Two Book Whole Three Gone Five Dangerous Disease Died Prison Bunch Insane Reviews Freak Exes Junkie Whole Family Deranged Book Review Inbreeding

Author:Tim Dorsey

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”

Writing Fall Reading Easy Disease Pot Ink Prey Scourge Quills

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”

Writing Mind Suffering Disease Sick Incurable Disease

Author:Juvenal

“Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.”

World Way Writing Humans Faces Political Church Race Teach Magic Poet Disease Universal Chosen One Way Human Race Diets Remedy Wretched

Author:Jacques Barzun

“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”

Thinking Writing Disease

Author:William Carlos Williams

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.”

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

Writing Literature Disease Artistic Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”

Writing Powerful Disease Picks Threat Patient Threatening Impatient Irresistible Viruses Great Writers

Book:In Defence of T. S. Eliot

Source: In Defence of T. S. Eliot

“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.”

Writing Disease Meaningless Construction Unnecessary Clutter Jargon Pompous Writing Well Strangling Frills

Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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

People Thinking Want Writing Disease Depression Comfortable Fundamentals Illness Mental Illness Discomfort

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.”

Writing Asks Progress Disease Asking Cancer

Author:Amy Lowell