Israel Horovitz Quotes

I used to love writing in my journal.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing gave me a life.

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 is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Writing is inherently scary.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Never regret what you don't write.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.