Writing is one of the most creative, productive and self-fulfilling therapies

July 9, 2012


Writing is one of the most creative, productive and self-fulfilling therapies
Gina Yoryet Román 


Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
Melinda Haynes

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.
Anonymous 


Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
 
Writing wasn’t easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It’s wonderful!
Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
 
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
Edward Gibbon
 
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
 
No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
Selma Lagerlöf
 
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
Anne Lamott
 
Are we, who want to create, in some way specially talented people? Or has everybody else simply given up, either by preassures of modesty or laziness, and closed their ears from their inner need to create, until that need has died, forgotten and abandoned? When you look at children, you start to think the latter. I still haven't met a child who doesn't love - or who at least hasn't loved - drawing, writing or some other creative activity.
Natalia Laurila
 
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
John D. MacDonald
 
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.
Leo Rosten
 
Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
 
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words – the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
J. Michael Straczynski
 
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland
 
I can’t help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle of some literary project, I’m utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.
Kaari Utrio
 
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola
 
May I never grow to old to treasure 'once upon a time'.
Anonymous