->''Dark is a valid direction to take something, but I think you have to be in a particular place, mentally, to stay there for a while.''
-->-- '''[[Webcomic/AModestDestiny Sean Howard]]''', ''[[http://www.squidi.net/blog/2010/2010.05.php#05.03.10 Ten Things I Learned Writing AMD]]''

->''That's Music/{{Paul|McCartney}}. Apparently he was under strain at that period.''
-->-- '''Music/JohnLennon''' on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDCkb-trLk "Carry That Weight"]]

->''This is a little sad, but Creator/JephLoeb's son had passed away a few years before, and I believe it had affected his writing. I'd be open to your take if you disagree on this, but I think if you look at the stuff he was writing before, like ''Batman'' and ''Daredevil'' with artist Tim Sale, and then you compare it to stuff like ''The Ultimates'', ''Ultimatum'', his work on ''Hulk'' with the Red Hulk, I think that things for a few years there were definitely more cynical and dark. That's my two cents. I think it affected his writing and it might've led to ''Ultimatum'' being more violent and ugly than it needed to be.''
-->-- '''WebVideo/ComicTropes''' [[https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=A1GhQRE2lTs on]] ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''

->The doctors told me I had to quit. I was so sick; I was bleeding from about everywhere. I mean, my stomach was gone; my head was gone; my body was gone. They said, 'You just have to stop.' And this is about two-thirds way through the third season... And I called [[{{Creator/Universal}} the studio]], and I told them. Of course they immediately sued me. ('Breach of contract.')
-->-- '''James Garner''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2P-nFya2RA on]] quitting ''Series/TheRockfordFiles''

->''From the inception of {{Wrestling/WCW}} to about a year-and-a-half there with Jim Herd was the worst time of my career ('til ''[[Wrestling/EricBischoff Biscoff]]'' came along). "Ric Flair", he was just gone from '89 'til I went to {{Wrestling/WWE}}. They cracked me. I'm not shy about telling that. I make light of it, and I make fun of it, but they almost had me with the Sigourney Weaver disease where I couldn't walk around the house without touching the wall. I was that cracked.''
-->-- '''Wrestling/RicFlair'''

->Gen Urobuchi wants to write stories that can warm people's hearts.\\
Those who know about my [[AuthorAppeal creative history]] will probably furrow their brows and think this is a sick joke. Honestly, I have trouble believing it myself. For when I start typing out words on the keyboard, the stories my brain comes up with are always full of madness and despair.\\
The truth is, I haven't always been this way. I have often written pieces that didn't have a perfect ending, but by the last chapter the protagonist would still possess a belief that [[EarnYourHappyEnding "Although there will be many hardships to come, I still have to hold on"]].\\
But ever since I don't know when, I can no longer write works like this... At some point, Gen Urobuchi lost that power. He still hasn't recovered. The 'tragedy syndrome' is still continuing within me. Is this a terminal disease? Should I give up on the pure "warrior of love" that I have longed for? [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Or mount a pallid battle steed and reincarnate into a bearer of the plague]]... could it be that I can only create pieces that give men courage and hope in my next life? (When I wrote this, I accidentally wrote '[[PetTheDog courage]]' as 'lingering ghosts'. I guess that's what I get for using [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_IME IME]] -- Ah, I just wrote "IME" as '[[FreudianSlip hatred]]'... is there no way out of this for me?)
-->-- '''Creator/GenUrobuchi''', Afterword to Volume 1 of ''[[Literature/FateZero Fate/Zero]]'' [[spoiler: with a lot of foreshadowing about [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica his next work]]]]

->At that time, the managers suggested that we have a psychotherapist come in. A man that meets with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball pro ball]] teams, you know -- big-ego, big-dollar guys [[TeethClenchedTeamwork that can't get along]], but have to make some kind of entity flow, so everybody else and everybody can make the money. And, uh, I actually said, 'I think that this is really fucking ''lame'' -- weak -- that [[HostilityOnTheSet we cannot get together]]. [[Music/{{Metallica}} Us!]] Look: the ''biggest heavy band of all time''! The things we've been through and decisions we've made... about squillions of dollars and squillions of people... and this? We can't get over ''this?''
-->-- '''Music/JasonNewsted''', ''[[Music/{{Metallica}} Some Kind of Monster]]''

->''Halfway though production, [Yasumi] Matsuno resigned from Creator/SquareEnix, citing health reasons. That the actual reason was [[FreakOut a nervous collapse]] is practically common knowledge, though you'll never heard Square Enix say so. (Matsuno's not taking a paid vacation to recuperate and choosing [[KnowWhenToFoldEm to get the hell away from Square Enix]] instead speaks volumes.) Working on ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' actually caused its director and executive producer to cave in on himself.''
-->-- '''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff12 "The Twelfth Final Fantasy"]]

->When I learned some years ago that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me.
-->-- '''Creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie'''

->''Will I be able to resume ''{{Literature/Alatriste}}'' as it was and not make an ''Alatriste'' that is different, damaged, far from the imagination of the reader and my past self?''
-->-- '''Creator/ArturoPerezReverte'''

->''"And if I could boil this movie down to one single word, it would be: 'bitter'. Like, if there's something I've noticed about this movie all the way through... it's that it's very bitter. It's bitter about everyone who hates it, it's bitter about any and all criticism that it's probably ever received, it's bitter for getting cancelled[...]Here's where most of the bitterness comes in, like, they clearly hate ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''... like, if I didn't know any better, it seems like the creators are blaming ''South Park'' for them getting cancelled."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter''' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPH_GXNMpE his commentary on his review]] of the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' movie.

->''I've given up!\\
I've had enough!\\
I took the time!\\
I overthought!\\
I paced around!\\
I fucked it up!\\
I lost all hope that I could make art!''

->''This fog in my mind won't part!\\
Got thoughts cooked up, but the oven door's stuck!\\
Nothing good will ever come out of this rut!\\
Starting to wish that I was cracked up!''
-->--"Insania", Music/{{Qbomb}}

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[[folder: This is an entry in my diary\\
On the 12th of December 2017\\
Music made me feel nothing\\
I made some anyway out of anger\\
For 24 hours\\
If albums testify eras\\
This is just a day ]]

-->-- '''Music/{{Madeon}}''', ''12122017''
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