Coleridge was....

[Paul Whybrow]

'Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer - and if so, why?'

Bennett Cerf

(Founder of Random House)

 

[CageSage]

No comment.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

You think you've got it bad? What about Dostoevsky?!

Russian novelist Dostoevsky faced a firing squad