About Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Dean Koontz

There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel that discomfort…

— Noah Kahan

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay…

— Jim Carrey

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

— Roxane Gay

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

— Ginger Zee

I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.

— Maria Bamford

“writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done…

— Irvine Welsh

“If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won’t make you, never quite managed to…

— Lauren Slater

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there…

— Akhil Sharma

Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to…

— Michael Crichton

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

— Ricky Gervais

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They…

— Paul Theroux