Marc Maron Quotes

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

For me, writing is just processing.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

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.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

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

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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

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.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

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

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

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

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

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.

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

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