Writing Healing Quotes

#1. Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

Michele Rosenthal

#2. In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction.

Haruki Murakami

#3. People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson

#4. Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour.

Jan Marquart

#5. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Reynolds Price

#6. Love is the beauty of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

Natalie Goldberg

#8. The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

Cory Booker

#9. Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

Ted Andrews

#11. Creativity is salve for the soul

Phillip Gary Smith

#12. I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

Mat Kearney

#14. Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Rand Olson

#15. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.

M. Kirin

#16. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.

Phil Wohl

#18. 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

#19. But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence.

C.S. Lewis

#20. As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

James W. Pennebaker

#21. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

#22. My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Robert Bly

#23. You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

A.D. Posey

#24. And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Jenim Dibie

#25. The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me.

Rupi Kaur

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

Jan Karon

#27. Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on a blank piece of paper. It has its own healing power and it gives me a feeling of contentment. Very addictive, yet it is not a criminal act.

Sonnia Kemmer

#28. I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood?

Jean Nicole Rivers