Lucinda Williams Quotes

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.

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.

I started writing to save my life.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

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

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

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.

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.

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

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

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

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

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.

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

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

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

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

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.