Amy Tan Quotes

Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has become that to me. It's a really pure form of creativity. It's good for my mental health in the same way reading books is good for me. It makes the day brighter.

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.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Part of my therapy is to write.

People do write books.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

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

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I started writing to save my life.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I love my books.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.