Emotional Quote by Daniel Mason

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what…

— Tess Gerritsen

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

— Kevin Patterson

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

— Roxane Gay

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

— Alain de Botton

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories;…

— Tess Gerritsen

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Jan Karon

I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

— Woody Allen