C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

I started writing to save my life.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

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

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

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

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

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

I was pretty troubled for a long time. And I didn't know that. As a kid, I never talked about my emotions. My mom gave me a journal, but I didn't know what it meant. I just wrote all the time, not even thinking about it. But it also made me feel better.