What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
no knowledge obtained without risk
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
Dreams age faster than dreamers.
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.