Carrie Fisher Quotes

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.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

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.

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

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.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I used to love writing in my journal.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

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

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

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

For me, writing is just processing.

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

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

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

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

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

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.