Joanne Harris Quotes

One writes in order to feel.

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

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

I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.

I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

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.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.