“I was arrested and imprisoned in this jail in South America and just about every kind of human suffering and degredation was influcted on us. And I found I could take all that poison and that bile and bitterness that I had turned inward and put it on the page. Writing saved my life, truly.” - Ken Bruen

Great video, in which authors Ken Bruen, TJ English, Martyn Waites, Joseph Wambaugh and Charles McCarry talk about the experiences that led them to take up writing.