Douglas Wilson Quotes

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

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

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

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

I started writing to save my life.

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

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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

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.

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.

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

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Instead of letting anxiety run you, try voicing it. Voice it in your comedy. Voice it in a script. Just voice it, and it'll help you release 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.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

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.