Writing Catharsis Quotes

#1. I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

Joan Didion

#2. Everytime I write, it's a catharsis. Even if I never got paid for it, I'd feel compelled to do it. And that's what makes a true writer. It's not how many readers you have or how many publishing contracts. Do you love to write? Then you're an author. No one can take that away from you.

Piper Vaughn

#3. All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

Charles Olson

#4. The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Nathalie Sarraute

#6. I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

Mary Lambert

#7. The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

George Carlin

#8. When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

Michael Stipe

#9. Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.

Ellie Goulding

#10. Oh, don't go to hell," I said. "Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. 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!

Karrine Steffans

#12. There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.

Hamilton Holt