“I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.” KnowsWritingKindGuySongFiguresNormalMelancholyDepressingReally Depressing Author:Townes Van Zandt
“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.” PeopleWayWritingReadingInterestGoneHappenedChildhoodNormalUniversalMemoirOutrageousThresholdWeirdness Author:Sara Nelson
“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.” PeopleIfsWritingReasonFactsUseCoursesBloodCryNormalPrisonIllPrisonerAutonomyFrustratingInkRestrictionMentally Ill Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty