Quotes About Author

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.

I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my opinions on world affairs.

I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

I sometimes joke - but the joke is not so wrong - that after my time in East Germany, I could either afford therapy to work through what happened under the Communists or move to New York.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.