Sally Rooney Quotes

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

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

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

By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

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

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

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.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

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