Albert Camus Quotes

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

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.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

Writing is the act of discovery.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

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

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

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

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.