Delia Ephron Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

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.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Writing is the supreme solace.

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

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

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

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.

As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

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.