Brady Corbet Quotes

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

Part of my therapy is to write.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

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

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

I write for myself. It's therapy.

My best writing has always been in journals.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.