Again Quote by Ann Packer

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back…

— Alex Lifeson

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of…

— Jodi Picoult

“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time…

— Dee Brown

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.

— Abi Morgan

I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to…

— Peter A. Levine

“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful…

— Jessica Stern

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma…

— Matana Roberts

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when…

— Rege-Jean Page

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you…

— Christian Boltanski

Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy