Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

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've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I've always written down how I feel.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

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

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.