All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing - Carl Henegan
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. - Tom Waits
...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. - Alasdair Gray
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. - Libba Bray