Anne Frank Quotes

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

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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.

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

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.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

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'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

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

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

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

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

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

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God I had that as an outlet.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

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.