Zane Grey Quotes

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

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

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

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

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

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.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

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

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

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

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.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God I had that as an outlet.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

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.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.