Isabel Allende Quotes

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

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.

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

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

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

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

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 don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

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.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

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 have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

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

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.