Blake Crouch Quotes

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.

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 really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

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

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

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.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

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.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

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

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Acting is therapeutic.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.