Writing Helps Me Quotes

#1. 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.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#2. Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Juliana Hatfield

#3. Writing helps me process things, but these emotions are too much, too foreign. And

Katherine Reay

#4. I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

Kiese Laymon

#5. Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

Miriam Toews

#6. Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Ashwin Sanghi

#7. I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

Darynda Jones

#8. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles De Lint

#9. Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Henri Nouwen

#10. I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

Richard Brancatisano

#12. I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

Ru Freeman

#13. There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.

Susan Elaine Jenkins

#14. I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

Christopher Bollen

#15. Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

Damon Galgut

#16. My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don't count a damn calorie. But when I'm really trying to eat healthy, I write everything down. It really holds me accountable and puts me on a healthier path.

Tyra Banks

#17. It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

Meg Tilly

#18. I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

Haley Pullos

#19. My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Rick Derringer

#20. While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Kate Voegele

#22. Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Nina Nesbitt

#23. So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.

George Harrison

#24. It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

#25. When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

Ashley Monroe

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

Ed Westwick

#27. It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Steven Wright

#28. Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

Sandra Cisneros

#29. When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

Anna Quindlen

#30. Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

Mindy Kaling

#31. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

Scottie Thompson

#32. I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't mean I think everything needs to leave the house. If it helps me through my life and doesn't bore anybody in theirs.

Todd Snider

#33. I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

Jack Prelutsky

#34. I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Melanie Martinez