Nora Ephron Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

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'.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

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

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 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.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

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?

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

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 think and write whenever I want an outlet.