Adora Svitak Quotes

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

I feel uninhibited when I'm writing.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Never regret what you don't write.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.