A Quote by David Mitchell

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
English - Novelist
Born: January 12, 1969

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Stephenie Meyer

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Darrell Hammond

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

Sebastian Stan

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

M. Scott Peck

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

John Hawkes

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Joaquin Phoenix

We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

Brad Anderson

I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.

Trisha Paytas

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Victor LaValle

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.

Pankaj Mishra

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.

Theo Paphitis

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

Andrew Solomon

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Lisa See

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

Stephen Fry

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