Gabriela Mistral Quotes

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

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

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

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.

The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.