Steven Berkoff Quotes

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

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

For me, writing is just processing.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

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

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

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

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

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

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

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.