Sheila Heti Quotes

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Acting is therapeutic.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

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.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.