Shirley Jackson Quotes

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

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

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

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

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

As a youngster when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing. Every single one of my songs is about something very personal to me and I could tell anyone what it's about, each song. Like a diary, basically.

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

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I need to write to be happy.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

I started writing to save my life.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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 used to love writing in my journal.

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

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.

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

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.