Quotes About Writing

Part of my therapy is to write.

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy.

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

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

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

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.

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how much happier I became, which is really cool for me to hear because I'm proud of myself.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Cooking and writing were my two forms of personal therapy and when I was doing over one or the other, I was in control of my day.

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting all my emotions and feelings out on paper.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

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

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.