Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

With 'Guzaarish' I went through a catharsis.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

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

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.