Andrew Strauss Quotes

For me, writing is just processing.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

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