Do you think that writers are mad?

"The night was warm. No, the night was hot. The night was so hot." It was the beginning of black comedy "Throw Momma from the train", with amazing Danny De Vitto and Billy Crystal. It talks about a writer who is asking for inspiration for a new book and his destiny will be connected in a funny way with a nerd (Danny de Vito) and his freaky mother.

I think that every writer faces it with a lack of inspiration. Suddenly your brain stops and you want to squeeze pieces of thoughts, but it can't work out. What to write, how to write? You are spinning in this circle as a clown.

Inspiration comes out when we are fragile and sensitive. J. W. Mozart was creating "Requiem" when he was seriously ill. He was dying and that music became his creation, as post mortem. Pablo Picasso painted a picture of his lover Dora  Maar because he was inspired by her moody behavior. Once she was fighting with another woman for his heart and cut her own hands to prove that she bleeds for him. She was familiar as a "crying woman", “Femme qui pleure”. 

Writers are connected with their heroes. Agatha Christie died in 1976, and her literary hero Hercule Poirot was killed in the novel "The Curtain." 1975. Writers, painters, musicians, actors, and other artists live in two ways. One life is a reality, another life is in a dream. They create a different world. When they are angry or sad, when they feel pain, they will be creative. This wonderful sound of the violin is a product of discarded love. This wonderful book is written in tears. Look at this ballerina how she is dancing, maybe she is suffering and she wants to give herself, to dedicate her feelings for art.

Some will say that writing is madness, that writers are genius or insane. Edgar Allan Poe died from a mental illness known as delirium tremens, the same as Croatian writer Ante Kovačić, also Kafka was mentally sick.
Big emotions can lead to madness, and a fragile mind might tear us apart from reality. If you have muse it will inspire you to write automatically, as someone whispers words into your ears. You know what to say and suddenly all have sense. 

Slovenian writer Ciril Kosmač said: "Big grief and big love can't last forever. Big grief will drown in his own water, and big love will burst into own fire." Big emotions can stay noted in the wonderful book, a great picture, or in a beautiful song.

In this case, all grief and suffering were not in vain. Someone will learn from it or admire, your feelings will stay forever written as a reminder of what had happened to you.