Art Quote by Dean Koontz

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

— Rashida Jones

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

— Julia Cameron

Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as…

— Myriam Gurba

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

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

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— Jan Karon

There's nothing more painful than writing.

— Paul Haggis

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

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

— Roxane Gay