Ray Bradbury Quotes

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

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.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

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

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

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

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Writing gave me a life.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

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

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.