Miriam Toews Quotes

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

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

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I've always written down how I feel.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I started writing to save my life.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

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