Writing is a very calming thing for me.
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.
When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.
When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.
I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.
I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention on these characters rather than worrying about my kids.
Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.
I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.
I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.
When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
My wife likes me better when I'm writing. It centers me and makes me more calm. When I go a long time without writing, I start getting frustrated.
Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.
