Marti Noxon Quotes

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

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 know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I need to write to be happy.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

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

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.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

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

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

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

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

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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.

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