Creative Quote by Anonymous

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

— Michael O'Donoghue

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

— Nadine Gordimer

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for…

— Raymond E. Feist

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.”

— Ashim Shanker

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

— Florence King

Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction.

— Ernest A Jones