Antidote Quote by Julia Cameron

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

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

— Irwin Shaw

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

— Kevin Patterson

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

— Dean Koontz

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

— Daniel Mason

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

“Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.”

— M. Kirin

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

— Edna O'Brien

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

— E. B. White

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu