“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”— George Gordon Byron Related Quotes “Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”— Pico Iyer “If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.”— Don Marquis “[I]t’s the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”— Betsy Lerner