Katie Piper Quotes

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down.

I love to do the stream-of-consciousness thing, because it's exciting for me, and I like to think it's exciting for the audience, too.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

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

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.

In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.