Edwidge Danticat Quotes

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

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

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

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.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

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.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.

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.

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.