Erik Larson Quotes

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

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

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.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

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

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

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

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.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

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

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

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

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'