Ben Mezrich Quotes

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

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

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

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

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

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

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

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

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.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

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.