Companions Quote by Kevin Patterson

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

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

— Daniel Mason

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

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

— Jan Karon

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu

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

— Edna O'Brien

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

— Roxane Gay

Writing is my therapy.

— Adam Silvera

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney