Quotes About Writing

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.

There's some discographies out there that are therapeutic to listen to before you write.

I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

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.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

I write for myself. It's therapy.