Mary Higgins Clark Quotes

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

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

Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

You mean, like a book?

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.