Leo Ornstein Quotes

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

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

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Writing is the supreme solace.

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

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

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

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.