Randy Wayne White Quotes

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

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 used to love writing in my journal.

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

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

I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.

I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That was really good for me. And to get some of the ringing out of my years from all the amps on stage.

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I started writing to save my life.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.