All writers are mad

It's a fact, it really is. It must be. How could it not be true? We sit around, thinking about horrible things to happen to fictional characters, and then we write it down as if it actually happened. We're forever talking about character 'voices', but they're just the voices in our own heads. We can make up believable cities, countries, planets - even universes!

Anyone who claims to be a writer has an eccentric personality when it boils down to it. Jacqueline Wilson? Ring obsession. Patrick Rothfuss? CHOSE to do nine years of university. Derek Landy? Wanted to kill Tanith Low in the first book.

You see where I'm going with this. All writers are a bit nuts, otherwise they wouldn't write. It's the normal people who read the books and live the adventures vicariously. Us writers? We have our hallucinations imaginations to give us entertainment and couldn't ask for more than that. Personally, I would love to live inside my own head! Writers turn to writing because otherwise, we'd just be wandering around the world, muttering fragmented scenes that are stuck in our heads, desperately trying to find a way to get out...

Yeah. All writers are mad.

That sums it up pretty well, actually.