Be patient Quote by Jenny Lawson

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

Part of my therapy is to write.

— LeAnn Rimes

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Maria Bamford

I write for myself. It's therapy.

— Dawn Richard

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all…

— Jim Beaver

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into…

— Jed Mercurio

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

— Meg Rosoff

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I…

— Max Ehrmann

One of the big grapples with taking medication for me was my creativity and feeling like creating and writing were going to be affected…

— Noah Kahan