Emma Donoghue Quotes

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

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

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

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

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

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

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

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.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

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