R. L. Stine Quotes

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I started writing to save my life.

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.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it's been my therapy - my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

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

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.